Hygienic Ice Co. v. Connecticut Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for injuries to the plaintiff’s motor-truck through a collision with a street-railway car of the defendant, which was alleged to have been caused by the negligence of its servants, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Burpee, J.; the court, upon motion of the defendant, directed a verdict in its favor, and from the judgment thereon the plaintiff appealed.
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Action to recover damages for injuries to the plaintiff’s motor-truck through a collision with a street-railway car of the defendant, which was alleged to have been caused by the negligence of its servants, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Burpee, J.; the court, upon motion of the defendant, directed a verdict in its favor, and from the judgment thereon the plaintiff appealed. Dixwell Avenue, a main thoroughfare in New Haven, leads easterly from the suburbs into the center of the city. Bassett Street is a side street which crosses it substantially…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, C. J.
Clearly there was evidence tending to establish negligence on the part of those in charge of the operation of the defendant’s car meriting submission to the jury. There was also evidence worthy of the jury’s consideration in support of the defendant’s contention that the plaintiff’s servant in control of the motor-truck failed to exercise due care when he turned across the defendant’s tracks with the car approaching. It may be assumed, for the purposes of this case, without so deciding, that this evidence was so conclusive as to compel a finding that he was so negligent. That, however, did…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Nehring v. Connecticut Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1912
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