Thelin v. Downs

These two actions arise out of the same accident. The plaintiff was standing on the sidewalk of John Street in Bridgeport, waiting for a bus, when, as the court finds, a piece of brick fell from the wall of a building abutting on the sidewalk, striking her on the head and causing her serious injuries. This wall was the outer wall of a building owned by the defendants Downs. Prior to 1918, for approximately seventy- five years, there had been a building, owned by Still-man and others, where the portion of John Street upon which the plaintiff was standing is now located. This building and that…