Cagianello v. City of Hartford

The plaintiff brought this action to recover for injuries suffered by reason of a fall caused by tripping over an elevated flag in a sidewalk of the defendant city. The jury rendered a verdict in her favor which the trial court set aside for lack of evidence that the defect had existed for sufficient time prior to the date of the fall to charge the defendant with notice.

The jury could have found the following facts: On the afternoon of June 19, 1944, the plaintiff, while walking on a public sidewalk on Bodwell Street, Hartford, stumbled over a flag which was elevated about two inches above…