Legal Opinion
Bacon v. Town of Rocky Hill
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided February 23, 1940PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMaltbie, C. J.
The complaint alleges that the plaintiff was a passenger in an automobile operated by Charles Canfield while it was proceeding in a northerly direction upon a highway in the defendant town; that the highway, as it descended steeply from the crest of a hill in a northerly direction, was imminently dangerous and unsafe for the passage of automobiles due to insecure and dangerous paving created and maintained by the defendant town, in that it had dumped and rough-graded heavy trap rock upon the surface of the road near the top and at the foot of the hill; that this caused an inherently and…
2Cases cited27 opinions
- Hoffman v. City of BristolSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1931
- Bartram v. Town of SharonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1899
- Hewison v. City of New HavenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1867
- Colwell v. City of WaterburySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1902
- City of Norwich v. BreedSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1862
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3Cited by57 opinions
- Beckwith v. Town of StratfordSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1942
- Hall v. BurnsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1990
- Baker v. IvesSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1972
- Lukas v. City of New HavenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1981
- Ferreira v. PringleSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2001
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