Simmons v. Southern Connecticut Gas Co.

The plaintiffs1 appeal from the judgment of the trial court rendered after a directed ver*246diet for the defendant and following the denial of their motion to set aside the verdict. They claim the trial court erred: (1) in directing a verdict for the defendant based on the defense of the statute of limitations after the plaintiffs presented a prima facie case in negligence; (2) in denying the plaintiffs’ motion to amend their complaint to include General Statutes § 52-592, accidental failure of suit in avoidance of the defense of the statute of limitations; and (3) in denying the plaintiffs’…