Peltier v. Bradley, Dann & Carrington Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while riding a bicycle, by a collision with a team of the defendant; brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County, and tried to the court, Studley, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Action to recover damages for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while riding a bicycle, by a collision with a team of the defendant; brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County, and tried to the court, Studley, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The complaint contained two counts, each alleging that while the plaintiff was attempting to pass the team, on Court street in the city of New Haven, the driver carelessly drove against and over the bicycle, and broke it, whereby…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The plaintiff’s main contention is that whoever drives a team upon what to him is the left hand side of the road, thereby assumes the responsibility of exercising an unusual and the highest degree of care to avoid a collision with any other vehicle which he may have occasion to pass, and which is being kept on what to it is the right hand side of the road.
Such is not the law. It is necessary and proper for any driver, who is about to stop for the purpose of going upon land or into buildings situated on what to him is the left hand side of the road, to shape his course in that direction ; and…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Styles v. TylerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1894
- Farist Steel Co. v. City of BridgeportSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1891
- Wrinn v. JonesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
- Fiske v. Forsyth Dyeing, Laundrying & Bleaching Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1888
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- North Chicago Street Railroad v. CossarIllinois Supreme Court · 1903
- Finken v. Elm City Brass Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1900
- Osborn v. City of NorwalkSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1905
- Bergin v. Southern New England Telephone Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1897
- Kebbe v. Connecticut Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1912
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