Potz v. Williams

The defendant, on August 9th, 1930, left Stamford at about eleven o’clock in the forenoon, drove his automobile to Worcester, Massachusetts, and from there to Springfield. He arrived in the latter city between nine and ten o’clock in the evening and stopped to call upon an aunt. There he met the plaintiff, who was intending to return to her home in Hartford by bus. As he would pass through Hartford he invited her to ride down with him as his guest. They left Springfield about ten-forty-five, standard time, and had reached the outskirts of Hartford about eleven-thirty p. m., when the accident…