Friedler v. Hekeler
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligent operation of an automobile owned and driven by the defendant, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Hinman, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $3,200, and appeal by the defendant.
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Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligent operation of an automobile owned and driven by the defendant, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Hinman, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $3,200, and appeal by the defendant. The plaintiff offered evidence to prove that the defendant drove his automobile through Hurlburt Street in New Haven at a rate of between twenty and twenty-five miles an hour, while looking at the numbers on the houses in search of No. 8, where he intended to deliver…
1Opinion of the CourtBeach, J.
The motion to set aside the verdict as against the evidence was properly denied. Defendant’s claim is that the plaintiff darted suddenly and unexpectedly in front of the car, but on this issue the evidence is conflicting, and the jury might reasonably have found that the plaintiff and two other children were playing together within the defendant’s vision as he drove down the street, and that after two of them had run across in front of his car he ought to have looked to see whether the other one would follow.
The motion to set aside the verdict as excessive was also properly denied. The…
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