DiIorio v. Tipaldi

On June 25,1967, the plaintiff, Salvatore Dilorio, 1 then eleven and one-half years old, was invited to the home of the defendants, Ralph Tipaldi and Julie I. Tipaldi, to play with their two boys, seven and nine years old respectively. The Tipaldi house and the Dilorio house, both in Weston, Connecticut, were next to each other about 150 to 250 feet apart; and the children played together almost every day. That day they played from about 10:00 a.m. mostly in the Tipaldi yard and house. The weather was sunny in the morning; it then rained, cleared up, and became sunny again. The boys played in…