Main v. Town of North Stonington

This action was brought by the plaintiff to recover damages for the death of the decedent, his wife, alleged to have been caused by a defect in a certain highway in the defendant town. At the trial a nonsuit was directed upon the ground that no such notice of the injury had been given as is required by § 1420 of the General Statutes, and from the refusal of the trial court to set it aside the plaintiff has appealed. The decedent was injured on December 1, 1937, and on December 4th the plaintiff sent to the first selectman of the defendant town two communications in the same envelope. One…