Laspino v. City of New Haven

In these actions, tried together, the plaintiffs, administratrix and administrator respectively, sought to recover for the deaths of their decedents, alleged to have been caused by a nuisance maintained by the defendant. The two deceased were drowned when a homemade boat which they occupied capsized and sank in a waterway of a partially developed park of the defendant city. In each case the jury rendered a verdict for the plaintiff, the defendant’s motion to. set it aside was denied and the defendant has appealed. The question for determination is whether the jury could reasonably have found…