Jacobs v. Goodspeed

180 Conn. 415 (1980)

MARSHALL JACOBS

v.

NORWICK B. H. GOODSPEED ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Argued January 16, 1980.

Decision released April 29, 1980.

COTTER, C. J., LOISELLE, BOGDANSKI, PARSKEY and SIDOR, JS.

James T. Haviland II, for the appellants (defendants).

Gary P. Sklaver, with whom, on the brief, were Irving H. Perlmutter and Andrew M. Ullman, for the appellee (plaintiff).

PARSKEY, J.

This case focuses on the tension between a litigant's constitutional right to have issues of fact determined by a jury and the trial court's legal discretion to overturn a verdict in order to prevent a…