Udkin v. City of New Haven
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the’ defendant, brought to and heard in damages by the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County, Wolfe, J. ; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $275, and appeal by the defendant.
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Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the’ defendant, brought to and heard in damages by the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County, Wolfe, J. ; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $275, and appeal by the defendant. The plaintiff, while traveling over one of the sidewalks in the defendant city at about seven o’clock in the evening, slipped and fell by reason of the then icy condition of the walk, thereby sustaining the injuries for which she sued. The premises in front of which she fell were covered by a…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
It is apparent from tlie record that the rule of duty which the court imposed upon the defendant in its care of the icy walk in question was one that required it to deal not only with conditions within the highway and with conditions without it by means to be employed within it, but also with conditions without it and upon private lands by means and measures to be there directly applied. The defendant claimed that it had no power to go upon the premises of private owners to change conditions there which were conducive to the formation of ice upon the walk in question, and that therefore no…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Hill v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
- Hewison v. City of New HavenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1867
- Beardsley v. City of HartfordSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1883
- Colwell v. City of WaterburySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1902
- Hewison v. City of New HavenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1871
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- Bacon v. Town of Rocky HillSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1940
- Pope v. City of New HavenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1916
- Sedita v. SteinbergSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1926
- Comba v. Town of RidgefieldSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1979
- Hay v. HillSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1950
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