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FLOYD v. FRUIT INDUSTRIES, INC.

144 Conn. 659 (1957)

MARGARET M. FLOYD, ADMINISTRATRIX (ESTATE OF JEWELL E. FLOYD) v. FRUIT INDUSTRIES, INC., ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided December 3, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Hunt, with whom was Grant Titsworth, for the appellant-appellee (plaintiff).

George F. Lowman, with whom were Adrian W. Maher and John F. Spindler, for the appellant-appellee (defendant Ruscoe).

Joseph L. Melvin, with whom was Robert F. Quimby, for the appellees (named defendant et al.).

WYNNE, C. J., BALDWIN, DALY, KING and MURPHY, JS.

KING, J.

This was an action claiming damages for the instantaneous death of the plaintiff's decedent. He was killed while he was a passenger in a motor car owned and operated by the defendant Earl S. Ruscoe which collided with a tractor-trailer truck owned by the defendant Fruit Industries, Inc., and operated by the defendant Sidney L. Masters. Since Masters' agency was admitted in the pleadings, it is unnecessary further to consider, in this opinion, the defendant...

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