McDonald v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from a proforma award of the Compensation Commissioner of the first district in favor of the plaintiff, taken by the defendant to, and reserved by, the Superior Court in Hartford County, Haines, J., for the advice of this court. The defendant corporation operated a chain of stores, one of which was located on Albany Avenue in Hartford.
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Appeal from a proforma award of the Compensation Commissioner of the first district in favor of the plaintiff, taken by the defendant to, and reserved by, the Superior Court in Hartford County, Haines, J., for the advice of this court. The defendant corporation operated a chain of stores, one of which was located on Albany Avenue in Hartford. Its organization consisted of a general superintendent and under him a superintendent, and under them assistant superintendents, and under them managers, each of whom had direct charge of a store. The manager of the Albany Avenue store on July 3d, 1918,…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The trial court, at the request of the parties, improperly included in the reservation the motion made in the Superior Court to correct the finding of the Commissioner. A motion of that character should not be made the subject of a reservation to this court. The terms of General Statutes, § 5783, specifically exclude questions of that character from the questions of- law reserved for this court. Compliance with §70 of the Rules of Practice (p. 286), stating in the reservation that the present determination of this question would be “in the interest of simplicity, directness, and economy in…
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