Hoyt v. City of Danbury
Supreme Court of Connecticut
■Action to recover damages for personal injuries claimed to have been caused by a defective highway, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and heard in damages to the court, Hall, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $2,600, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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■Action to recover damages for personal injuries claimed to have been caused by a defective highway, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and heard in damages to the court, Hall, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $2,600, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The finding of facts was as follows; On" November 9th, 1894, at 8:30 A. M., the plaintiff, while walking easterly on the sidewalk on the south side of West street, in the city of Danbury, at a point on said sidewalk at the divisional line between the property of…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The immediate occasion of the plaintiff’s fall was his slipping on the coping stone of a wall by which a sidewalk built upon one plane, on a street descending a hill, was divided from a sidewalk built upon another, three or four feet lower. Against this wall, as a means of descent, had been placed a flight of wooden steps, down which he fell. It is found by the trial court that the sidewalk and steps were covered with snow which had fallen during the previous night to the depth of three or four inches; and that he “ was in the act of stepping down upon the wooden steps, when his foot upon the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Mills v. . City of BrooklynNew York Court of Appeals · 1865
- Curtis v. . Rochester and Syracuse Railroad CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1859
- Hewison v. City of New HavenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1867
- Beardsley v. City of HartfordSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1883
- Jones v. City of New HavenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1867
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- Sargent v. Massachusetts Accident Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1940
- Perrotti v. BennettSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1920
- Leblanc v. GrilloSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1942
- Ruerat v. StevensSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1931
- Pluhowsky v. City of New HavenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1964
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