Griffing v. Town of Danbury

A judge of tbe Superior Court has no power to allow a motion for a new trial after a resignation of his office has taken effect, in a case tried before him while in office.

Assumpsit, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Minor, J. The jury having rendered a verdict for the defendants the plaintiff moved for a new trial. A preliminary objection was taken by the counsel for the defendants, that the case was not legally before the court. It appeared that Judge Minor had in the early part of the year 1873 sent to the Governor of the state a resignation of…