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- Title: Hofacher v. Fox
- Author : Supreme Court of Connecticut
- Release Date : January 02, 1955
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 53 KB
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The plaintiff brought this negligence
action against the defendants Robert Fox,
Connecticut Zionist Region, Inc., and Eugene H.
Kaser to recover damages for injuries sustained by
her while riding as a passenger in an automobile
owned and operated by Kaser. The jury returned a
verdict for the plaintiff to recover $30,000 from
the defendant Kaser and in favor of the
defendants Connecticut Zionist Region, Inc., and
Fox. From the judgment rendered thereon the
defendant Kaser and the plaintiff have appealed. We first discuss Kaser's assignment that the
court erred in refusing to set aside the verdict
on the ground that it was not supported by the
evidence. The jury could reasonably have found the
following facts: Whitney Avenue, a public highway
in the town of Cheshire, runs north and south.
Brooksvale Road, running east and west, intersects
Whitney Avenue on its west side only. Cook Hill
Road, also running east and west, joins Whitney
Avenue on its east side only. The southerly side
of Cook Hill Road and the northerly side of
Brooksvale Road are on a substantially straight
line. The place where Whitney Avenue and
Brooksvale Road meet is called Ives Corner.
Whitney Avenue is part of route 10, the College
Highway, and is a main traffic artery from New
Haven northward. It is a two-lane highway, thirty-eight
feet wide between guardrails. The surface is
black macadam, with hardened shoulders covered by
loose sand between the traveled portion of the
highway and the guardrails on both sides. The
easterly shoulder is five feet wide. The avenue
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