Legal Opinion
Palmieri v. MacEro
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided November 3, 1959PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMurphy, J.
The plaintiff was injured early in the morning of July 12, 1956, when his Cadillac automobile, operated at the time by his nephew, Anthony Giannetti, went over an embankment on the Pennsylvania turnpike. The nephew did not survive. The plaintiff was unable to testify as to the cause of the accident, since he had been asleep in the car and was only awakened when it struck a guardrail before going over the embankment. There were no witnesses to the accident.
A Pennsylvania state policeman investigated the accident within an hour and traced the path of the car backwards, by the marks it had made,…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Fisher v. JacksonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1955
- Latham v. HankeySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1933
- Puza v. HamwaySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1937
- Bruce v. McElhannonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1954
- Sigel v. GordonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1933
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3Cited by55 opinions
- Boehm v. KishSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1986
- Vogel v. SylvesterSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1961
- State v. DeCosterSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1960
- Terminal Taxi Co. v. FlynnSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1968
- Berchtold v. MaggiSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1983
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