Huber v. H. R. Douglas, Inc.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for the loss resulting to the plaintiffs from the collapse and fall of the building occupied by them as a retail dry-goods store, which was alleged to have been due to the negligence of the defendants in demolishing and removing a building upon the adjoining premises and in excavating thereon, brought to the Superior Court in New London County and tried to the jury before Greene, Jverdict and judgment for the plaintiffs for $23,500 against the…
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Action to recover damages for the loss resulting to the plaintiffs from the collapse and fall of the building occupied by them as a retail dry-goods store, which was alleged to have been due to the negligence of the defendants in demolishing and removing a building upon the adjoining premises and in excavating thereon, brought to the Superior Court in New London County and tried to the jury before Greene, Jverdict and judgment for the plaintiffs for $23,500 against the defendant H. R. Douglas, Incorporated, and in favor of the defendant Marsh, from which the defendant company appealed. The…
1Opinion of the CourtCase, J.
There are inconsistencies in the answers which the jury returned to the interrogatories submitted to them, but they are not serious enough to vitally affect the verdict. Under our practice it has long been the rule that a general verdict rendered upon several counts will stand if any one of them justifies it. Hoag v. Hatch, 23 Conn. 585, 589. The jury perhaps overemphasized the Douglas Company’s liability, in spreading it over all three counts and at the same time removing two of these from consideration by finding, in substance, that the plaintiffs had not established their essential…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Walker v. StrosniderWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1910
- Hoag v. HatchSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1855
- Shepard v. New Haven & Northampton Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1877
- Ceffarelli v. LandinoSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1909
- Conway v. City of WaterburySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1911
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- Walker v. New Haven Hotel Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1920
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