Bergner v. State

This case has once been before the Supreme Court of Errors upon a demurrer to the state’s special defense of governmental immunity. The facts appear in that case. Bergner v. State, 144 Conn. 282. Following that decision, rendered February 25,1957, the state, with the court’s permission, on October 22, 1957, filed a substitute answer alleging as a second special defense that Special Acts 1955, No. 346 (27 Spec. Laws 277), upon which the plaintiff bases her action, is unconstitutional in that it violates article first, § 1, and article second of the constitution of Connecticut, and § 1 of the…