Legal Opinion
Rua v. Kirby
Connecticut Appellate Court
Decided December 14, 2010No. AC 31535PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
2Per curiam
In this personal injury action, the plaintiff, Miguel Rua, appeals following the trial court’s denial of his motion to set aside the verdict in his favor. On appeal, he claims that the court improperly failed to charge the jury that the defendants, Gene R. Kirby and Mary Aviles, “take the plaintiff as they find him,” and, therefore, the court abused its discretion when it denied his motion to set aside the verdict. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.
The jury reasonably could have found the following facts. On October 22, 1996, at approximately 3:30 p.m., the plaintiff was…
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