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- Title: Mims v. Kingsley
- Author : Supreme Court of Connecticut
- Release Date : January 14, 1958
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 53 KB
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The plaintiff brought this action to
recover damages for personal injuries alleged
to have been caused to him by the defendant's
negligence. By his answer the defendant denied
the allegation that he was negligent and that
his negligence was a proximate cause of the
plaintiff's injuries. The defendant alleged, also,
that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory
negligence. The case was tried to the jury, who
returned a verdict for the defendant. The court
denied the plaintiff's motion to set it aside.
The plaintiff appealed from the judgment.1 In his first assignment of error the plaintiff
claims that the court erred in denying his motion
to set the verdict aside, contending that the
verdict is not supported by the evidence. The
jury could reasonably have found the following
facts: Dixwell Avenue in New Haven runs north
and south. Henry Street runs east and west and
intersects Dixwell Avenue. There is an overhead
traffic signal at the center of the intersection.
The phases of the colored lights of the signal
are green, amber and red and then from red to
green. On October 6, 1953, in the evening, it was
raining heavily. The defendant was operating his
automobile in a westerly direction on Henry Street
at a speed of approximately twenty miles per hour.
The plaintiff was operating his automobile in a
southerly direction on Dixwell Avenue. As the defendant
approached Dixwell Avenue the signal light was green
[145 Conn. 9]
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