Longstean v. Owen McCaffrey's Sons
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for injuries to the plaintiff’s summer cottage situated on the shore of Long Island Sound, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Haines, «/.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $513 damages, and appeal by the defendant.
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Action to recover damages for injuries to the plaintiff’s summer cottage situated on the shore of Long Island Sound, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Haines, «/.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $513 damages, and appeal by the defendant. The plaintiff claimed to have proved the following, facts: On October 14th, 1917, the defendant was engaged in towing seven empty coal barges through Long Island Sound, going westward. The captain of the tug changed the course of the tow,…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, C. J.
The acts of alleged negligence of the defendant are set up in the complaint in a single involved sentence of twenty-nine lines, which reads as follows: “2. On or about the day of October, 1917, the defendant negligently allowed a number of empty coal barges to break from the towing tug and go adrift and land upon the beach about two thousand feet distant from where said cottage of the plaintiff was and is situated, and at such a distance that no harm would have occurred and no danger would have been imminent to the plaintiff’s said premises and cottage but for the further negligent acts of…
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