Lucier v. Town of Norfolk
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for the alleged breach of a contract to transport school children of the defendant town to and from school over prescribed routes, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Litchfield County, Wolfe, Jfacts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, but for $35 only, from which he appealed.
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Action to recover damages for the alleged breach of a contract to transport school children of the defendant town to and from school over prescribed routes, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Litchfield County, Wolfe, Jfacts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, but for $35 only, from which he appealed. The trial court found that the plaintiff, in 1920, conducted at Norfolk a garage and auto livery business, and in the school years beginning September, 1915, 1916, 1918, and 1919, had transported school children from certain parts of that town to the Gilbert High School at…
1Opinion of the CourtKeeler, J.
The vote of the committee of August 17th, appearing in the statement of facts, was admitted in evidence by the court against the objection of plaintiff that he was not present at the meeting nor notified to be present, that the first information as to the vote came to him September 17th, that it is not found that he was told of the contents of the vote, and that therefore he could not be charged with knowledge of its terms. This ground of objection is ineffective to exclude evidence of the vote. The vote of the committee was a circumstance in the case, a relevant element of the transaction,…
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- State Ex Rel. Town of Huntington v. Huntington Town School CommitteeSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1909
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