Carl v. City of New Haven
Supreme Court of Connecticut
. Action to recover damages for personal injuries from a fall upon an icy sidewalk which the defendant was alleged to have negligently left in a slippery and defective condition, brought to the Superior Court ia New Haven County and tried to the jury before Haines, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $1,725, and appeal by the defendant.
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. Action to recover damages for personal injuries from a fall upon an icy sidewalk which the defendant was alleged to have negligently left in a slippery and defective condition, brought to the Superior Court ia New Haven County and tried to the jury before Haines, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $1,725, and appeal by the defendant. About eight o’clock in the evening of February 15th, 1917, the plaintiff sustained personal injuries as the result of a fall upon a sidewalk on Winter Street, a public highway in New Haven. It was testified and not disputed that the walk at th,e…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, C. J.
The reasons of appeal select for criticism and complaint four passages contained in the court’s charge to the jury. The burden of the complaint made in each instance, save one, is essentially the same, to wit, that the standard of duty imposed upon the city, under circumstances like those presented by the evidence, was too high.
It has long been recognized in this State, as elsewhere, that some duty rested upon cities and towns in respect to snow and ice upon highways. The courts of different States have, however, not been in full ■accord as to the extent and measure of it. Since the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Ryerson v. Inhabitants of AbingtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1869
- Cloughessey v. City of WaterburySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1884
- Landolt v. City of NorwichU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut · 1871
- Smyth v. City of BangorSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1881
- Pendleton v. Inhabitants of NorthportSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1888
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- Baker v. IvesSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1972
- McCracken v. Curwensville BoroughSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1932
- Aaronson v. City of New HavenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1920
- Ormsby v. FrankelSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2001
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