Mead v. Town of Derby
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Case, for an injury from a defect in a highway of the defendant town; brought to the Court of Common Pleas of New Haven county. The facts were found by.a committee,, and the court reserved the case on the facts for the advice of this court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPark, J.
The statute (Gen. Statutes, tit. 31, sec. 1,) provides that the several towns in this state shall make, build and keep in good and sufficient repair, all the necessary highways and-bridges-within their respective limits, except where it belongs to some particular person or corporation to maintain such highways and bridges.” The duty therefore devolved upon the town of Derby, the defendant in this case, to keep the highway in question free from defects, unless it clearly appears from the finding of the court that this obligation was imposed upon the borough of Birmingham.
It is manifest that…
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