Walsh v. Hayes
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Actions to recover damages for personal injuries claimed to have been caused by tlie defendant’s negligence, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and heard in damages to the court, Boraback, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff in each case for nominal damages only, and appeal by them for alleged errors in the findings and conclusions of the court.
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Actions to recover damages for personal injuries claimed to have been caused by tlie defendant’s negligence, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and heard in damages to the court, Boraback, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff in each case for nominal damages only, and appeal by them for alleged errors in the findings and conclusions of the court. The finding stated the following facts: On July 11th, 1898, Coleman T. Walsh was a strong and healthy child nearly' five years old. Thomas Walsh is his father. The defendant had been an ice dealer in Waterbury for…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwix, J.
The complaints in these actions charge the defendant with negligence, first, in loading his wagon with large cakes of ice, one placed on top of another, without being secured in any way whatever so as to prevent them from falling out of the back end upon the slightest jarsecond, in failing to put in the tail-board; and third, in using a pair of young and spirited horses, and urging them up a steep grade with the whip; when he knew that children were in the habit of being about the rear end of his wagon for the purpose of getting bits of ice.
The default threw upon him the bux-den of disproving…
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