165 A. 791 | Conn. | 1933
The plaintiff brought this action to recover damages for the death of her decedent, caused *577
by a collision between the automobile in which the decedent was riding and a motor truck owned by one and driven by the other defendant. From the judgment entered upon a verdict in favor of the defendants, the plaintiff has appealed. She has assigned errors in the failure of the trial court to give certain requests to charge and in certain portions of the charge as given. The trial court charged the jury that if they reached the conclusion that the defendant driver was negligent prior to the time of the collision and that that negligence was a substantial factor in causing the accident, and the plaintiff's decedent was free from contributory negligence, the plaintiff would be entitled to recover even though the defendant driver "did all that he could in attempting to avoid the accident, because the defendant cannot nullify any primary negligence of his by any subsequent act upon his part;" this was a correct charge; Pietrycka v. Simolan,
The claim of error most seriously pressed is a portion of the charge which dealt with the application of § 1639(b) of the General Statutes to the issues in the case. The statute provides that "any person operating any motor vehicle upon approaching an intersecting highway. . . . provided signs on the highway, legible for a distance of one hundred feet, indicate such intersecting highway, . . . shall reduce the speed of such vehicle and give timely signal when reasonable care shall require such action." When the legislature has enacted a statute governing the operation of motor vehicles, the terms of which are clear and precise, it is the duty of the courts to apply it in accord with the intent expressed in the Act, without limitation, exception or extension. Murphy v. Way,
There is no error.
In this opinion the other judges concurred.