Gillum v. Yale University

Opinion

FOTI, J.

The plaintiffs, administrators of the estates of the decedents, Haruna Gillum and Angelina Bryant,1 appeal from the judgment of the trial court rendered after it granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants, James L. Scott, Jr., a psychiatrist, and Yale University (Yale). The issue presented in this appeal is whether the court properly determined that the plaintiffs could not bring this action under the accidental failure of suit statute, General Statutes § 52-592. The detailed procedural history and facts that follow are *777necessary to our consideration of the issue…