Mlynar v. A. H. Merriman & Sons, Inc.

The plaintiff was injured in a head-on collision between a car which he was operating in a southerly direction on Thomaston Avenue in Waterbury and a milk delivery truck of the defendant. At the point of collision Thomaston Avenue has a hardened surface eighteen feet in width. At the easterly edge of the hardened roadway a steep bank rises, and between the westerly edge and the sidewalk curb there is a dirt shoulder about nine feet in width. The accident happened about half-past two in the morning. The original complaint alleged that the driver of the defendant’s truck drove it to the…