Legal Opinion
Morgillo v. Evergreen Cemetery Assn.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided November 19, 1964PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMurphy, J.
The defendant has appealed from a judgment rendered on a verdict of $75,000 for the plaintiff for injuries sustained on March 19, 1957, while he was acting as a pallbearer at a funeral in the defendant’s cemetery. The defendant assigns error in the denial of its motion to set aside the verdict, the finding of claims of proof without evidence, rulings on evidence, and the charge.
A lengthy recitation of the claims of proof by the parties is not essential to our disposition of the appeal. The following abridged summary will be sufficient. In preparation for the burial, the defendant had by its…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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- State v. HannaSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1963
- Facey v. MerkleSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1959
- State v. SmithSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1962
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