Sheppard v. Atwater Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit on a contract of hiring; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County. The case was referred to a committee to find the facts, who reported in favor of the plaintiff. The defendants remonstrated, and the court overruled the remonstrance and rendered judgment for the plaintiff, for the amount found due him by the committee.
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Assumpsit on a contract of hiring; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County. The case was referred to a committee to find the facts, who reported in favor of the plaintiff. The defendants remonstrated, and the court overruled the remonstrance and rendered judgment for the plaintiff, for the amount found due him by the committee. At a later day in the same term at which the judgment was rendered the defendants filed a written motion that the case be recommitted to the committee on the ground that his finding upon a certain question of fact was against the evidence in the case, and that…
1Opinion of the CourtPark, C. J.
It appears in this case that the court below overruled the remonstrance filed by the defendants to the acceptance of the report of the committee, accepted the report, and rendered judgment in favor of the plaintiff. After this had been done, the defendants filed their motion to recommit the case to the committee. The court, being in doubt whether it had power so to do, reserved the question for the advice of this court, but omitted to set aside the judgment which had been rendered in the case, and the acceptance of the report of the committee, and afterwards, while the record was in this…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Ashmead v. ColbySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1857
- Knapp v. WhiteSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1855
- Colgrove v. RockwellSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1856
3Cited by1 opinion
- State v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1891