McInerney v. New England Transportation Co.

The single assignment of error is in the denial of the motion to set aside the verdict upon the ground that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law.

The jury could have found the following facts: On January 13, 1943, at about 7 o’clock in the morning, the plaintiff was walking in a southerly direction on the west side of Meadow Street in Waterbury on his way to work. He came to a marked crosswalk approximately eighty-six feet long that crossed the private entranceway to a railroad station, looked to his left, saw no traffic coming from that direction, and started…