Chambelis v. Connecticut Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeals by the defendant from the allowance, in taxing costs, of two trial fees and two jury fees, in two cases claiming damages resulting from the same collision, which were tried together to the same jury, in the Court of Common Pleas in Fairfield County, Booth, J. The plaintiff Rometsch sued for damages to his automobile, and the plaintiff Chambelis for personal injuries received in the same accident.
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Appeals by the defendant from the allowance, in taxing costs, of two trial fees and two jury fees, in two cases claiming damages resulting from the same collision, which were tried together to the same jury, in the Court of Common Pleas in Fairfield County, Booth, J. The plaintiff Rometsch sued for damages to his automobile, and the plaintiff Chambelis for personal injuries received in the same accident. The cases were tried to the jury together, so that the evidence as to liability was the same in each case, but the evidence as to damages entirely separate. There was a verdict and judgment…
1Per curiam
Each plaintiff was entitled to a jury fee and a trial fee. There were two jury trials, and the judgment in each case recites, accordingly, that it was committed to the jury. The agreement that the two cases should be tried together, related merely to the method of submitting the question of liability in each case to the jury. Otherwise the two litigations were independent, and on the issue of damages required separate trials.
The provision of § 2242 of the General Statutes which provides that “the prevailing party in any civil action . . . shall receive ... for the trial of an issue of law or…
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