Corona, Admr. v. City of New Haven

The trial of this action resulted in a plaintiff’s verdict for $1250.00, which the City moves to set aside, assigning as its reasons therefor the following:

1. The verdict was excessive.

There is nothing at all to this claim because the jury ac' cepted the claim that the decedent’s death was due to a fall she sustained on the day in question. The verdict was not only not excessive but, if anything, was inadequate.

2. The verdict cannot stand because there is no right of survival for death resulting from an injury caused by a defective sidewalk.

There may be something to this claim as a principle…