Strouse v. Whittlesey

The record in this case presents a very clear case of injury without proof of such negligence as renders the defendant legally responsible. The plaintiff and defendant were passing in opposite directions through Orange street in the city of New Haven in the evening, both driving at modérate speed, apd in the exercise of such care as is ordinarily observed by drivers, and each on the proper side of the street. The street is twenty-six feet wide at the place of contact. Of that space eight feet on the side the defendant was driving was occupied by a standing team. He turned into the middle of…