Legal Opinion
Gauvin v. City of New Haven
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided May 18, 1982PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtArmentano, J.
This appeal raises the issue of whether a municipality must specially plead governmental immunity to merit its consideration as a defense to an action alleging the negligent operation of a city park.
One of the fingers in the plaintiff’s dominant hand was broken when a link in a chain supporting a playground swing on which he was sitting broke. The plaintiff brought an action in negligence against the defendant city, alleging that the defendant’s failure to exercise reasonable care in maintaining the chain links of the swing, located in Lighthouse Park in New Haven, proximately caused his…
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3Cited by72 opinions
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