Calkins v. City of Hartford
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action on the statute concerning highways and bridges, to recover damages for injuries sustained by a fall upon a sidewalk in the city of Hartford by reason of ice left upon it; tried upon the general issue, before Carpenter, J. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, and the defendants moved for a new trial, on account of the ruling of the court against the admissibility of certain evidence.
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Action on the statute concerning highways and bridges, to recover damages for injuries sustained by a fall upon a sidewalk in the city of Hartford by reason of ice left upon it; tried upon the general issue, before Carpenter, J. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, and the defendants moved for a new trial, on account of the ruling of the court against the admissibility of certain evidence. The grounds of the motion and the questions involved are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtDutton, J.
In this case the plaintiff offered evidence tending to show that she sustained an injury by slipping on a formation of ice, which had remained about four days on a side-walk in the city of Hartford, extending entirely across the walk somewhat diagonally, from one and a half to two feet wide at the outer edge of the walk and some three feet wide in the center, about four and a half inches thick in the thickest part and sloping to a thin edge, and that it was dangerous to cross.
The defendants offered evidence tending to prove that there was no such body of ice, and that, if there was, it did…
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