Burr v. Town of Plymouth
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action upon the statute with regard to highways, for an injury from a defective highway of the defendant town; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and tried to the jury, upon the general issue, before Hitchcock, J. Upon the trial the plaintiff introduced testimony to prove, and claimed that he had proved, that on the 18th day ”of March, 1879, about one o’clock in the afternoon, he had occasion to pass over the highway in question in the town of Plymouth, which…
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Action upon the statute with regard to highways, for an injury from a defective highway of the defendant town; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and tried to the jury, upon the general issue, before Hitchcock, J. Upon the trial the plaintiff introduced testimony to prove, and claimed that he had proved, that on the 18th day ”of March, 1879, about one o’clock in the afternoon, he had occasion to pass over the highway in question in the town of Plymouth, which highway it was admitted to be the duty of the town to maintain; that he drove a pair of steady horses attached to a…
1Opinion of the CourtGranger, J.
The first question presented upon the record is, whether the evidence offered by the plaintiff, and objected to by the defendants, was admissible.
The action was founded upon the statute relating to highways, and was for an injury received by the plaintiff upon a highway in the defendant town, the only defect in which was caused by snow and ice, no structural defect being claimed by the plaintiff. The accident happened on the 13th day of March, 1879, not upon the ordinary traveled path of the highway, nor even upon the road bed, but, as the motion states, upon “ a well defined way in and over…
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- Wilson v. Town of GranbySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1879
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