Fitzgerald v. Scovil Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action against a corporation for an injury to the person caused by its negligence, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried upon demurrer to an answer alleging that suit was not brought within one year from the date of the injury ; judgment for defendant (Slvwmway, J.) and appeal by plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
This action was brought on September 17th, 1908, and the complaint counts on an injury which is alleged to have occurred on January 11th, 1902.
On July 1st, 1902, the Revision of 1902 of the General Statutes went into effect. It provides (§1119) that “ no action against a municipal or other corporation, to recover damages for injury to the person, . . . shall be brought but within one year from the date of such injury.” The law previously existing had given six years for suit on such a cause of action as the complaint alleged, unless it were one against a “ municipal corporation, railway or…
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