Guerrieri v. Merrick

The plaintiff was injured in attempting to reach a bus near the intersection of Ford and Pearl Streets in Hartford. The bus had been traveling west on Pearl Street and had stopped in the southerly of the two westbound lanes behind one or two other vehicles which had come to a stop at the intersection for the traffic light. The defendant was also driving west. Her automobile was some little distance behind the bus and was in the northerly of the westbound lanes. The plaintiff, who was blind in his left eye, crossed from the sidewalk on the north side of Pearl Street to get on the bus although…