Lemonious v. Burns

The defendant J. William Burns, commissioner of transportation (commissioner), appeals from the judgment of the trial court, rendered after a jury trial, awarding $85,000 in damages to the plaintiff for injuries she sustained as a result of the commissioner’s violation of General Statutes § lSa-144,1

*736one of this state’s highway defect statutes. The commissioner claims (1) that the jury could not have reasonably and logically inferred from the evidence presented at trial that the road where the plaintiff fell was not closed pursuant to General Statutes § 13a-145, and (2) that the trial court’s…