Shore v. Town of Stonington

The issue presented in this appeal is whether the plaintiff, whose decedent was killed by a drunk driver who had been stopped but not arrested by a town police officer, has a cause of action in negligence against the officer and the town1 for failure to enforce §§ 14-222 and 14-227a of the *149Connecticnt General Statutes.2 The trial court granted the defendant town’s motion for summary *150judgment, finding that the police officer owed no specific duty to the plaintiff’s decedent to enforce the motor vehicle laws of the state.3 We affirm.

From the pleadings and the materials submitted in support of…