Legal Opinion
Balchunas v. Palmer
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 5, 1945No. 51PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Circuit Judge.
About 7 P.M. on Friday, January 28, 1944, plaintiffs’ intestate, Kastanias Radziunas, operating his own motor truck, drove onto the railroad tracks of the New Haven Road, at the Hoyt Street grade crossing in Darien, Connecticut, and was struck and killed about 110 feet south of the crossing by a train bound northerly for New Canaan. There were no eyewitnesses of the accident; but the testimony of the police officer who investigated the death, as well as that of the defendants’ engineer and conductor, indicated that the deceased had been proceeding southward along Hoyt…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- Toletti v. BidizckiSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1934
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3Cited by6 opinions
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