Brown v. Town of Southbury
Supreme Court of Connecticut
. Action to recover for an injury from a defect in a highway of the defendant town; brought to the Court of Common Pleas, and heard in damages, upon a demurrer overruled, before Torrance, J. Facts found and damages assessed at $171.59. Appeal to this court by the defendants. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
This is an action for injury to property by reason of a defective highway, and was heard in damages after demurrer overruled.
*213The defendant objected to the admission in evidence of the notice to the selectmen required by statute (Session Laws of 1883, p. 283) on the ground that it did not sufficiently describe the nature of the injury and the place of its occurrence. The court overruled the objection.
Under the statute as it originally passed in 1874, the nature of the injury did not need to be stated in the notice, but it is required by the act as amended in 1883. We think the nature of the…
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