Essam v. N. Y., N. H. H.R. Co.

These two cases were tried together. Each of the plaintiffs obtained a verdict against the defendant, The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company. The plaintiff Frank Oliver was a passenger in a motor vehicle operated by the late Frank Essam. Mr. Oliver was injured and Mr. Essam died as a result of the injuries he received. The defendant claims that the verdicts should be set aside because it says that Oliver, a passenger, was in the same situation as was the plaintiff's intestate in Boscarello v. New York, N. H. H.R. Co.,112 Conn. 279, and that the late Frank Essam was in the same…