Norton v. Consolidated Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for an alleged assault by the defendant’s servant in attempting to eject the plaintiff from one of the defendant’s street-railway cars, brought to and heard in damages by the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County, Ullman, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $200, and appeal by the defendant,
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
The complaint alleges that the defendant is a common carrier of passengers by an electric street-railway, and that on the day named, while the plaintiff was lawfully riding as a passenger in one of defendant’s cars and had paid his fare for transportation to Winchester Avenue in the city of New Haven, he was unlawfully assaulted hy the conductor of the car in attempting to forcibly remove him- from the car.
As appears from the finding of facts, the plaintiff and his wife, who resided on Winchester Avenue and were accustomed to ride upon the street cars in the city, and were familiar with the…
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