Fay v. Hartford & Springfield Street Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries resulting in the death of the plaintiff’s intestate and alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the jury before Shumway, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $2,500 damages, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
On the 24th of September, 1907, between four and five o’clock in the afternoon, the plaintiff’s intestate, Thomas Walsh, sixty-five years of age, was struck by the defendant’s electric street-railway car on Main Street in Windsor Locks, and received injuries resulting in tetanus, from which he died nine days afterward.
The complaint alleges that when he was injured, Walsh was walking southerly on the right-hand side of the traveled portion of the highway, driving his horse and wagon; that the place where he was injured was dangerous for the passage by each other of teams and cars, by reason of…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Lawler, Admr. v. Hartford Street Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1899
- Ryan v. Town of BristolSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1893
- Wood v. City of DanburySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1899
- Snow v. Coe Brass Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1907
- Norris v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1905
3Cited by19 opinions
- Radwick v. GoldsteinSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1916
- Seabridge v. PoliSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1922
- Welshausen v. Charles Parker Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1910
- Gesualdi v. Connecticut Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1945
- Burke v. Town of West HartfordSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1960
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