Legal Opinion
Ziskin v. Confietto
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided April 3, 1951PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The plaintiffs, who brought suit on the grounds of both negligence and nuisance, claimed to have proved the following facts: The defendants owned a three-family tenement house. The plaintiffs were tenants and lived on the first floor. Entrance to the front was by way of a concrete walk which gradually sloped upward from the sidewalk to the veranda steps. The walk and steps were used in common by all the tenants and were under the defendants’ control. There were no railings at the sides of the steps. The riser of the bottom step was slightly higher than the others. On December 31, 1945, rain,…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Proto v. Bridgeport Herald CorporationSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1950
- Morris v. King Cole Stores, Inc.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1946
- Horvath v. TontiniSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1940
- Chambers v. LoweSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1933
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3Cited by14 opinions
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