Fritts v. New York & New England Railroad
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for the alleged negligence of the defendant in causing the plaintiff’s horses to run away, thereby diminishing their market value, and injuring the plaintiff’s carriage and harness; brought to the District Court of Waterbury and heard in damages to the court, Bradstreet, J.; judgment for the plaintiff and appeal by the defendant. This is the same ease reported in 62 Conn., p. 503, in which a new trial was granted.
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Action to recover damages for the alleged negligence of the defendant in causing the plaintiff’s horses to run away, thereby diminishing their market value, and injuring the plaintiff’s carriage and harness; brought to the District Court of Waterbury and heard in damages to the court, Bradstreet, J.; judgment for the plaintiff and appeal by the defendant. This is the same ease reported in 62 Conn., p. 503, in which a new trial was granted. The finding of the court in the present case is as follows:— Upon the new trial of this case, in a hearing in damages before the court in pursuance of the…
1Opinion of the CourtToeeANCE, J.
This case was before us at a former term upon appeals taken by both parties. Fritts v. New York New England R. R. Co., 62 Conn., 503. We then held that there was no error on the defendant’s appeal, while on the plaintiff’s appeal we held there was error, and granted a new trial. When afterwards the ease came up in the court below the defendant claimed a right to a re-trial of the entire facts, but the court overruled that claim, and whether it erred in so doing is the one question presented by the present appeal. By reference to the record in the former appeal in this case it will clearly…
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