Musial v. State of Connecticut

The plaintiff sued the State of Connecticut alone for the negligence of an alleged employee. The State answered that the alleged employee was not an employee for whose acts it was responsible. The plaintiff then was granted a motion to cite in the alleged employee. The officer set up in his return of this that it was impossible to make service upon the alleged employee as he had left the state and that “therefore under the statute” he sent to the defendant a copy of the complaint and citation addressed to his last known address by registered mail and left a copy with the Commissioner of Motor…