Legal Opinion
Welz v. Manzillo
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided July 29, 1931PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHaines, J.
The plaintiff and the defendant owned adjoining tracts of land in Waterbury. The complaint alleges in substance that on May 31st, 1927, about seven-thirty in the afternoon, the defendant for the purpose of breaking up some stone and boulders on his land, and while the plaintiff was on his own lot about seventy feet distant, set off a heavy charge of dynamite which had been inserted into a boulder or rock on the defendant’s land; that the force of the explosion was such that various pieces of rock, dirt and débris were hurled some distance, one piece of rock striking the plaintiff on the back…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Norwalk Gaslight Co. v. Borough of NorwalkSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1893
- Thompson v. TwissSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1916
- State v. GarganoSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1923
- Alexander v. R. A. Sherman's Sons Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1912
- Worth v. DunnSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1922
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3Cited by31 opinions
- Orlo v. Connecticut Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1941
- Whitman Hotel Corporation v. Elliott & Watrous Engineering Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1951
- Darling v. Burrone Bros., Inc.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1972
- Whitney v. Ralph Myers Contracting CorporationWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1961
- Caporale v. C. W. Blakeslee & Sons, Inc.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1961
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