Sharkey v. Skilton
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action by a husband and wife to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by her and for the consequential injury to him through the loss of her services and society, alleged to have been caused by the wilful and unlawful acts of the defendant, brought to the Superior Court in Litchfield County and tried to the court, Gager, J., upon a demurrer to the complaint; the court sustained the demurrer and rendered judgment for the defendant, from which the plaintiffs…
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Action by a husband and wife to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by her and for the consequential injury to him through the loss of her services and society, alleged to have been caused by the wilful and unlawful acts of the defendant, brought to the Superior Court in Litchfield County and tried to the court, Gager, J., upon a demurrer to the complaint; the court sustained the demurrer and rendered judgment for the defendant, from which the plaintiffs appealed. The complaint alleges that while the plaintiff wife was on August 28th, 1908, riding along the highway in a surrey…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
Counsel direct our attention to but two questions as being presented by this record. One is as to whether or not the cause of action set up in the complaint is one founded upon negligence. Section 1119 of the General Statutes as amended by chapter 149 of the Public Acts of 1903, p. 114, provides that “no action to recover damages for injury to the person, or for an injury to personal property caused by negli gence, shall be brought but within one year from the date of the injury or neglect complained of.” It is conceded that if the plaintiffs’ action as defined by the complaint is, within the…
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