Thе complaint in this action charges the defendant with negligence: first, in running a freight trolley-car, attachеd to a passenger trolley-car, not equipрed with suitable brakes; second, in running these cars at an excessive and reckless rate of speеd; and third, because of the failure of the defendаnt’s agents to exercise proper care in preventing these cars from colliding with a wagon driven by a servant of the plaintiff.
The trial court found the defendant was guilty of negligence in running its cars at an excessive rate of speed; that the plaintiff’s servant was negligent in attempting to cross the tracks of thе defendant company in front of the apprоaching cars; and that his contributory negligence was an efficient and proximate cause of the accident. No exception to any finding of fаct or to any refusal to find a fact has been made.
The plaintiff claims that the ultimate conclusion of the Court of Common Pleas as to the question оf contributory negligence is not supported by the subоrdinate facts set forth in the finding. To sustain this contention of the plaintiff, it must appear that the trial court rеached its conclusion by adopting an erronеous rule of law; that some fact found was legally inсonsistent with its conclusion; that the judgment rendered was impossible without violating the plain rules of reason; оr that there was an error of fact which was relied on by the court as material and controlling, and which lay at the very foundation of the judgment.
Metcalf
v.
Central Vermont Ry. Co., 78
Conn. 614,
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Upon the trial the plaintiff introduced as a witness an experienced driver of wagons, who testified that he witnessed the collision in question аnd he saw the approaching cars at the time the plaintiff’s servant attempted to drive across the track in front of them. It is made a reason of аppeal that the court excluded an inquiry of this witnеss as to his opinion as to whether or not it was an аct of ordinary care and prudence for the plaintiff’s driver to attempt to cross the track аt this time. Witnesses who testify .upon the question of contributory negligence are not permitted to say that their own or another’s conduct was negligent, or was that of a careful person.
Wood
v.
Danbury,
There is no error.
In this opinion the other judges concurred.