Gail v. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.

The named defendant was the lessee of the Temple Street garage in New Haven owned by the defendant city of New Haven. The plaintiff was a parking customer in the garage and claimed injuries caused by certain basic structural and design defects in a pedestrian area of the garage as set forth in the plaintiff’s complaint. The first count against the defendants is based on negligence, and the second count is based on nuisance, reading in part: “The conduct of the defendants was such as to create a condition, the natural tendency of which was to create danger or inflict injury to persons legally…