Legal Opinion
Worden v. Francis
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided February 3, 1976PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Per curiam
This was an action sounding in negligence and nuisance brought against Joseph Francis of Southington, which action arose from injuries sustained by the plaintiff in August of 1952. The complaint alleged that the defendant owned a road grader or scraper, that children, including the plaintiff, then thirteen years of age, were accustomed to play around it and that on the day in question when the children were playing on the scraper it suddenly started, moved forward and struck the plaintiff causing him injuries. The case was twice tried to a jury, once in 1959 and again in 1963. Both trials…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- National Broadcasting Co. v. RoseSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1965
- Worden v. FrancisSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1966
- Worden v. FrancisSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1961
- Dorsey v. HoneymanSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1954
- Keane v. SmithSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1972
3Cited by11 opinions
- Snow v. CaliseSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1978
- Rice v. Vermilyn Brown, Inc.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1995
- Burton v. BrowdSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2001
- Valley v. FazzinaSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1982
- Schoolhouse Corp. v. WoodConnecticut Appellate Court · 1996
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