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- Title: Capone v. Sloan
- Author : Supreme Court of Connecticut
- Release Date : January 29, 1962
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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In many respects, the claims of proof of
the parties are in substantial accord. Brubaker
Road, in Cheshire, runs generally north and south,
and intersects from the north, but does not cross,
South Brooksvale Road, which runs generally east
and west. The highways are uncurbed, and to some
extent each flares at the intersection. The paved
portion of Brubaker Road is of a uniform width of
about twenty-five feet before it flares out, and
that of South Brooksvale Road, about seventeen and
one-half feet. Brubaker Road flares out much more
than does South Brooksvale Road. The intersection
is in the general form of an inverted "T." At about 4:30 o'clock on the afternoon of August
23, 1957, a dry, clear day, the plaintiff was
operating, in an easterly direction on South
Brooksvale Road, a rack-body Dodge truck of
three-quarters of a ton capacity and an overall
width of eight feet. He was approaching, downgrade,
the intersection with Brubaker Road. The defendant
Blanche Sloan was driving a Plymouth sedan, owned by
her husband, the defendant Paul Sloan, in a southerly
[149 Conn. 540]