Seabridge v. Poli
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Jennings, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $2,000, and appeal by the defendant. Error and new trial ordered.
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Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Jennings, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $2,000, and appeal by the defendant. Error and new trial ordered. The complaint set forth, and the answer denied, that a toilet-room maintained by the defendant contained weighing-scales which stood in a dangerous position and “constituted a source of danger to persons . . . passing to and from said room,” and was negligently maintained in a dangerous…
1Opinion of the CourtBukpee, J.
The plaintiff, by the defendant’s in vitation, was lawfully in the toilet-room provided by him for the use of the patrons of his theater, and while she was there the defendant owed her the duty to use reasonable care to have and to keep the premises reasonably safe in every particular. Turgeon v. Connecticut Co., 84 Conn. 538, 541, 80 Atl. 714; Godfrey v. Connecticut Co., 98 Conn. 63, 118 Atl. 446. In her complaint the plaintiff alleged that the defendant failed to perform this duty to her because he negligently permitted a weighing-machine to stand in the toilet-room in such a position that…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Nehring v. Connecticut Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1912
- Radwick v. GoldsteinSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1916
- Ware v. Evangelical Baptist Benevolent & Missionary SocietyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1902
- Godfrey v. Connecticut Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1922
- Turgeon v. Connecticut Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1911
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