Hope v. Valente
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the kick of a vicious horse which the defendant had negligently left unattended and unharnessed in the street, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Williams, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $1,350, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The plaintiff alleges that he was kicked by a horse of the defendant which had been “negligently left unattended, unguarded and unharnessed and tied to the rear of a wagon” in Orange Street. He claimed further that the horse was a vicious, kicking horse, and that the defendant knew of this vice. The complaint has been construed as charging two acts of negligence. Hope v. Valente, 84 Conn. 248, 250, 79 Atl. 583. There was evidence tending to prove that the defendant was engaged in constructing two houses on Orange Street, that at the time of the plaintiff’s injury there were several piles of…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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