Norris v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries resulting in the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, brought to and heard in damages by the Superior Court in Litchfield County, Case, J. ; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $5,000, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
The facts found by the trial court, material to the questions raised by this appeal, are these:—
Between one and two o’clock in the afternoon of Sunday, January 21st, 1903, the plaintiff’s intestate, Austin H. Norris, was struck and killed at a highway grade-crossing about three hundred feet north of the Burrville station on the Naugatuck division of the defendant’s railroad, by the locomotive of a north-bound train. Mr. Norris, who was a clergyman, was on his way to conduct a religious service at Burrville, a village midway between Torrington and Winsted, the latter being the northern…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Lawler, Admr. v. Hartford Street Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1899
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