New Britain herald., 1928-11-01
COSTS ARE GIVEN
 IN 2,O00 ACTION
Jury DdibG,tts Two Hours in
 Case Against Senk
(speeial to the Herald)

Special to the Hersld)
 Hartford. Nov. l-After deliber- eting for over two hours. the jury reached . decision in favor of the - defendant to recover costs in the el5.0O0 automobile accident case of Natalie Bordenaro. Joseph surano. Josephine Surano and Mary Attardi. asatnst Rose 9enk and her son. Jo- seph in superior court this morning the case being tried before Judge Allyn L. Brown.
 The action was brought some time go through Attorney E. J. Myers. tor personal taiury damages result ing from an accident on September %. 1927 on the Hartford New Brit ain road at which time. the plaintiffs as guest passengers of the defend- ant were injured, when the defend- ant Joseph Senk. in an effort to avoid hoad-on collision between his car and . car appearing sudden ly from behind q truck. turned sharply and landed on the front lawn of the property of Gillett's Cor ner. the car turning over to one Side.
 The car in which the plaintiffs were passensers was the last of . procession of several cars returning from . wedding trip from Hartford to New Britain. and far behind the rest of the wedding party.
 Among the several witnesses heard during the trial yesterday. the driver of the truck which was pro- ceeding from New Britain to Hart ford, and which figured in the aci- cident. testified that he saw the Senk car approaching from the opposite direction. keeping to the right of the road. As the cars neared each other, . red machine suddenly popped from behind the truck. and senk, to avoid . head-on collision turned to the right. then to the left. grazing the truck, then turned sharply to the right again to avoid running into . pole. finally landing in . heap on the lawn of the Gillette corner property.
 Two young boys who were pas sengers in the red car. corroborated the testimony of the driver of the truck. while on the other hand oc- cupants of the Senk car testified that Joseph surano attempted to persuade young Senk to slow down as they were afraid something might happen. If he continued at the rate of speed he had kept up for the past mile or so.
 The testimony of the defendant did not sum up and agree with the statement he made to the commits Etoner of motor vehicles, in which he stated that he passed q car about 50 yards before the accident happened, whereas on the stand he claimed that for at least three-quarters of . mile there was no car in sight.
 Officer Strolls and Sergeant FL finger. who investigated the acci- dent. testified that there were marks on the road of brakes being applied by Senk for a distance of approxi- mately 165 feet. This counsel for the plaintiffs claimed was sufficient proof that Senk travelled at the al- legged rate of 55 miles per hour. not 3e as he claimed. and after passing the car 50 yards from the place of accident saw the red car coming from the opposite direction and was unable to bring the car to sudden stop because of the reckless rate of speed he was travelling at.
 Senk testified that no one fin the party attempted at anytime to warn him about the rate of speed he was keeping. and seeing a clear road be- fore him. continued until the sudden appearance of the red touring car from behind the truck forced him off his travelled course.
 Mayor Paqnessa Summoned
 Mayor Paonessa's political cam paigning was cut short this after noon when he was served with a