City of Bridgeport v. Bridgeport Hydraulic Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for injuries to certain streets and bridges of the plaintiff city, through the breaking away of the defendant’s dam, which was alleged to be the result of its negligence, brought to and heard in damages by the Superior Court in Fairfield County, Shumway, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for nominal damages only, and appeal by the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The complaint alleges, in substance, that the defendant’s dam broke and discharged an immense body of water, which had been collected in its reservoirs, upon certain highways and bridges of the plaintiff below the dam, destroying some of them and greatly damaging and injuring others; that the dam was defective in having insufficient spillway capacity for all conditions against which the defendant was bound to provide, and in other respects not necessary to be mentioned ; that the defendant was negligent in permitting this defective condition to exist, and that it was by reason of the defects…
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- Hunt v. BlackburnSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
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- Dennison v. Waterville Cutlery Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1908
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