Martino v. Connecticut Co.

Mai/tbie, J.

As the decedent was riding upon the seat of a truck which was proceeding easterly toward Manchester his hat blew off. Thereupon the driver of the truck stopped it near the right side of the paved roadway, with its rear end about four feet and four inches away from a single track railway of the defendant company and its front somewhat further away. The hat came to rest on the pavement of the roadway in the rear of the truck. The decedent stood up, looked around to see where his hat was and then got off the truck on the side nearest the track. He was struck and killed by a trolley…