Foote v. E. P. Broderick Haulage Co., Inc.

The plaintiff has appealed from a judgment entered upon a verdict in favor of the defendants, in an action brought by her to recover for injuries suffered when she was struck by an automobile just as she was stepping to the curb on the north side of Fairfield Avenue in Bridgeport, after having crossed that street. She brought her action against the defendants, respectively the owner and driver of a truck, upon the ground that the driver’s negligent operation of it had caused a car driven by Mrs. Gardner, though there was no collision, to swerve from its course to the north side of the avenue,…