Jacobs v. Swift & Co‪.‬

This action was brought by a child
about three years of age to recover for personal
injuries claimed to have been sustained as the
result of the negligent parking of the defendant's
truck by its agent. The jury returned a verdict
for the defendant. From the judgment rendered
thereon the plaintiff has appealed, assigning
errors in the charge. The plaintiff offered evidence to prove the
following facts: Bank Street in Seymour is about
thirty-six feet wide and runs in an easterly and
westerly direction. It is intersected by Martha
Street from the north, only. The defendant's
agent, on July 19, 1950, parked its truck, headed
in an easterly direction, outside a line of cars
standing along the southerly curb of Bank Street
so that the truck blocked almost all of the
eastbound lane. It was also within the
intersection of Martha and Bank Streets. At the
time, there was a vacant parking space less than
100 feet east of the front end of the truck.
Another truck was parked on the opposite side of
Bank Street approximately sixty feet east of the
easterly corner of Martha Street. The defendant's
truck, parked as it was, constituted a traffic
hazard endangering persons using the highway.