Willoughby v. City of New Haven

The plaintiff brought her action, to recover damages because of injuries alleged to be due to failure to keep a sidewalk free from defects due to snow and ice upon which she fell on February 15th, 1936, against both the city of New Haven and the defendant bank as abutting property owner. The trial court held the city liable and not the defendant bank. The principal claim of the defendant city is that the trial court erred in holding it instead of the abutting property owner liable, relying upon an act of the Legislature (Special Acts, 1935, p. 191) as transferring liability from the city to…