Legal Opinion
Atelier Constantin Popescu, LLC v. JC Corp.
Connecticut Appellate Court
Decided April 17, 2012No. AC 31951PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
ESPINOSA, J.
The defendants, JC Corporation, Tea House on the Riverside, Inc. (Tea House), Julie Chen and Hsiao-Wen Chen, appeal from the judgment of the trial court finding them liable for damages incurred by the plaintiff, Atelier Constantin Popescu, LLC, as a result of a fire that destroyed the building that JC Corporation had agreed to lease to the plaintiff. The defendants claim that the court improperly found that (1) JC Corporation’s independent contractor acted with gross negligence in causing the fire that destroyed the building; (2) the gross negligence of the independent…
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