Turner v. American District Telegraph & Messenger Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for the act of the defendant’s servant in assaulting and ■ shooting the plaintiff, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Haines, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $3,000, and appeal by the defendant. Miner, Read & Tullock was a mercantile firm carrying on business in New Haven and occupying for that purpose a building situated at the corner of State and Water streets.
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Action to recover damages for the act of the defendant’s servant in assaulting and ■ shooting the plaintiff, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Haines, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $3,000, and appeal by the defendant. Miner, Read & Tullock was a mercantile firm carrying on business in New Haven and occupying for that purpose a building situated at the corner of State and Water streets. The plaintiff was employed by as a night watchman therein. As such watchman it was his duty to make inspection rounds of the premises at stated…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, C. J.
The first of the defendant’s reasons of appeal is based upon the court’s denial of its motion to set aside the verdict and grant a new trial. The plaintiff claimed a recovery upon three grounds, to wit: (1) that Sullivan’s unjustifiable use of his revolver was the act of the defendant’s servant in the course of his employment by and on behalf of the defendant; (2) that the defendant was negligent in entrusting to Sullivan, to quote the language of the plaintiff’s brief, “an unlicensed, reckless young man, a loaded revolver in violation of the statute laws of the State, when it knew, or by the…
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