Kerin v. Baccei

The plaintiff’s material claims of proof were that his decedent, who had defective eyesight, before leaving the westerly curb of Main Street in Torrington to proceed across the street by a marked crosswalk, looked north and south for approaching traffic, and then proceeded on the crosswalk until opposite the rear of cars parked diagonally to the curb, when he again looked both ways for traffic; that when he reached a point in the crosswalk twelve and a half feet from the west curb, being then about a quarter of the way across the street, the defendant’s car as it came into his view…