Rooney v. Woolworth
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and heard in damages to the court, Rorabach, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $4,500, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
The parties to this case were before this court in a former action to recover' damages for the same injury as that described in the present complaint. Rooney v. Woolworth, 74 Conn. 720. The negligent act of the defendant complained of in that action was the maintenance by the defendant of a dangerous means of exit from his store to a passway, by means of a rear door by the use of which the plaintiff was injured. Upon the trial of that cause upon a hearing in damages, it became a material, if not controlling, question, whether the plaintiff, who was in the store as a customer, made use of this…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Pomponio v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1895
- Corrigan v. Union Sugar RefineryMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
- Rooney v. WoolworthSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1902
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- Builliard v. N. O. Terminal Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1936
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