Welshausen v. Charles Parker Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries caused by the bursting of one of the barrels of a breach-loading shot gun made by the defendant and alleged to have been sold by it to the plaintiff, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County where the plaintiff was nonsuited in a trial to the jury before Gager, J., from which judgment he appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The complaint alleges that the plaintiff purchased of the defendant a gun of its own manufacture, with an express warranty by its agent that the same was sound, of best quality and fit to stand the strain of proper and ordinary use, and that the barrels thereof were of the best Damascus steel. It also alleges negligence on the part of the defendant in manufacturing the gun and putting it on the market, and in allowing it to go into the hands of customers without proper supervision and inspection during and after its manufacture and before it was sold; that the gun was weak, insufficient,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Fay v. Hartford & Springfield Street Railway Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1908
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