Gallagher v. Button
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries claimed to have been caused by the defendant’s neglect to repair a fire-escape, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Ralph, Wheeler, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $1,000 damages, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court.
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Action to recover damages for personal injuries claimed to have been caused by the defendant’s neglect to repair a fire-escape, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Ralph, Wheeler, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $1,000 damages, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. The defendant also appealed from the refusal of the court to set aside the verdict and grant him a new trial upon the ground of a verdict against evidence. The complaint alleged that “ on the 5th day of December, 1898, the…
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
The plaintiff sued her landlord for a personal injury caused by the falling of the platform of a fire-escape attached to the building which she occupied as a tenant, and upon which platform she had stepped in order to fasten a loose blind.
It appeared that seven years or more before the accident the defendant had leased to the plaintiff certain rooms in the building, by the ordinary parol contract of leasing, without any express warranty or any agreement to repair, the rent being payable monthly, and that the plaintiff had continued to occupy them until the time of the accident, without any…
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