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Baird v. Gaer Bros., Inc.

205 A.2d 490, 152 Conn. 219, 1964 Conn. LEXIS 345
Supreme Court of Connecticut·Decided December 2, 1964·Published·Cited by 3 cases

Opinion

Comley, J.

The plaintiff sought damages for injuries received in a collision between her car and the named defendant’s truck which occurred in Hartford at the intersection of Maple and Retreat Avenues. The jury returned a verdict for the defendants. There is no factual dispute of any significance between the parties, and the only question of law raised by the plaintiff in her assignments of error is whether the jury received instructions from the court which enabled them to determine correctly the area of the intersection.

The two avenues approach each other at a comparatively slight angle and meet in a long Y-shaped intersection. The intersection is broken up into a complicated pattern by four concrete traffic islands of various shapes and sizes, one of them being about 180 feet in length. Because any attempt at accurate verbal description seems doomed to failure, we reproduce on the opposite page the sketch which was used at the trial.

By appropriate signs, traffic moving in an easterly direction from Retreat Avenue is directed to proceed between traffic islands 2 and 3. No westbound traffic is permitted between these islands. An eastbound vehicle using this space is faced by stop signs *222 on each of these islands. After stopping, such a vehicle — and this was the situation of the truck — must then proceed between islands 1 and 4 into the eastbound lane of Maple Avenue.

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Baird v. Gaer Bros., Inc., 205 A.2d 490, 152 Conn. 219, 1964 Conn. LEXIS 345 (Colo. 1964).

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