Black v. Griggs
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries resulting in the death of the plaintiffs’ intestate, claimed to have been caused by the negligence of the defendants, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Creorge W. Wheeler, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs for $1,000 damages, and appeal by the defendants for alleged error of the court in instructing the jury upon the amount of damages.
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Action to recover damages for personal injuries resulting in the death of the plaintiffs’ intestate, claimed to have been caused by the negligence of the defendants, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Creorge W. Wheeler, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs for $1,000 damages, and appeal by the defendants for alleged error of the court in instructing the jury upon the amount of damages. The case is sufficiently-stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
Upon the trial in the Superior Court the plaintiffs offered evidence to prove that their intestate, Emily Caldwell, who was employed by them as a chambermaid in a hotel conducted by them, fell from the fifth story of said hotel building, from the platform of a fire-escape attached thereto, to the ground, a distance of about 50 feet, and received injuries from which she died in a few hours, after much suffering. The plaintiffs claimed to have proved that the accident was caused by the negligence of the defendants, who were the owners of the building, in having failed to fasten the 'railing of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Broughel v. Southern New England Telephone Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1900
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