Hyde, Admr. v. Mendel
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries resulting in the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, and claimed to have been caused by defendants’ negligence, brought to the Superior Court for New Haven County and heard in damages to the court, Shumway, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for nominal damages only, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings and findings of the court.
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Action to recover damages for personal injuries resulting in the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, and claimed to have been caused by defendants’ negligence, brought to the Superior Court for New Haven County and heard in damages to the court, Shumway, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for nominal damages only, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings and findings of the court. The defendants occupied for their business a building fronting on Chapel Street in New Haven, containing a basement extending under the sidewalk. In a room of the basement, which extended…
1Opinion of the CourtHameksley, J.
We do not think the objections to evidence justify discussion; the rulings of the court are too plainly correct, or are harmless.
The court properly received from defendant’s counsel after the close of the arguments a transcript of the .stenographer’s notes of certain portions of the testimony.
The claims of error in finding certain material facts without any evidence are clearly unsupported by the testimony certified.
Claims that the' court erred in weighing the evidence supporting the facts on which its judgment was founded cannot be considered. In this case, and in some others recently before…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Styles v. TylerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1894
- Nolan v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1898
- Wood v. City of DanburySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1899
3Cited by8 opinions
- Hayward v. PlantSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1923
- Palumbo v. George A. Fuller Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1923
- General Hospital Society v. New Haven Rendering Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1907
- Drouin v. Chelsea Silk Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1936
- Blackwell v. Central Vermont Railway Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1906
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