Fabricator v. Salovitz

In this action the plaintiff seeks to recover damages from the defendant, an owner of land abutting a sidewalk in the City of New Haven, because the plaintiff slipped, fell and was injured by reason of the failure of the defendant owner to “keep the sidewalk free of ice and snow or to otherwise make the sidewalk reasonably safe for use of persons lawfully there by spreading sand, ashes, cinders, gravel or other abrasive material there.”

The complaint is based upon the last paragraph of section 1 and the whole of section 2, as amended in Special Acts of 1937, No. 576.

In the last paragraph of…