Sheeler v. City of Waterbury

The plaintiff sued to recover damages for personal injuries suffered by a fall upon a sidewalk in the defendant city. She relied on two causes of action. The jury returned a general verdict for the plaintiff. The defendant’s appeal is from the denial of its motion to set the verdict aside and from the judgment. It is necessary to consider only the latter phase of the appeal.

The plaintiff claimed to have proved the following facts: Savings Street is a public highway in the city of Waterbury. In the vicinity of the Armory building, so-called, the southerly sidewalk, at the time in question, had…