Gianotta v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad

The appeal is based upon the denial of the defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict and grant a new trial. The defendant’s trolley-car ran into plaintiff’s automobile when it was crossing a grade-crossing in Berlin. The sole question upon the appeal is as to the contributory negligence of the plaintiff. The plaintiff offered evidence to prove that he stopped his automobile in the highway at a point about fifteen feet south of defendant’s main track, and looked in either direction up and down defendant’s track and neither saw nor heard defendant’s car approaching from’ the eást, and that…