Weidlich v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for negligently causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate at a highway grade-crossing in Bridgeport, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Kellogg, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $10,000, and appeal by the defendant.
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Action to recover damages for negligently causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate at a highway grade-crossing in Bridgeport, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Kellogg, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $10,000, and appeal by the defendant. The plaintiff’s intestate, Ernest C. Weidlich, was riding as a guest on the rear seat of a closed automobile owned, controlled and driven by his brother, who was seated on the front seat, when the engine of defendant railroad, about 6.50 p. m. on January 23d, 1918, hit the automobile at the…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The requested corrections of the finding, made the subject of the appeal, are without merit. Paragraph 15 of the statement of facts claimed in evidence by plaintiff, may be supported upon the gate-tender’s statement of what he saw and heard and did. Paragraph 23, as to the view of the approaching train, is supported by inferences which may reasonably be drawn from the testimony of the engineer, Burns. Paragraph 6, as to the freedom from negligence of the plaintiff’s intestate, was a conclusion which the trier might reasonably have made from all the facts and circumstances in the case. The…
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