Shea v. Hemming
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate by negligence, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Burpee, J.; verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $10,000, against the defendant Gustave F. Hemming, from which he appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBeach, J.
On the night of October 18th, 1919, about eleven o’clock, the plaintiff’s decedent, a police officer of the city of New Haven then on duty, was standing in front of a motor-car owned by one Sheehy, which was drawn up close to the curb on its right-hand side of Kimberly Avenue in New Haven. While it was standing there with its brakes set, a motor-car belonging to the defendant Theresa S. Hemming, which was being driven from West Haven toward New Haven by one Wells, ran into the rear of the Sheehy car with such force that it was driven forward about sixty feet from its former position. The…
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