Comstock v. Connecticut Railway & Lighting Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Actions by husband and wife to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by her and caused by the defendant’s negligence, brought to and heard in damages by the Superior Court in Fairfield County, Thayer, J. ; facts found and judgments rendered for the husband to recover $300 and the wife $500, and appeal by each of them for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
In one of these actions, a husband sues for his own loss from injuries suffered by the wife : in the other both sue for her loss. In each action the complaint states that when injured she was keeping a fashionable city boardinghouse ; that her injuries prevented her from continuing to keep it; and that she has since not been able to do any work whatever, and has been at great expense for medical treatment. In the action by the husband, he alleges that when she was injured and for a long period before, she had supported him, but that he- has since been deprived of such support and of her…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Ehrgott v. . Mayor, Etc., of City of N.Y.New York Court of Appeals · 1884
- Matteson v. . New York Central RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1866
- French v. Connecticut River Lumber Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1887
- Wallace v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1900
- Harmon v. Old Colony RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
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3Cited by21 opinions
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- Stavola v. PalmerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1950
- Mazzucco v. Krall Coal & Oil Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1977
- Henderson v. ColemanWyoming Supreme Court · 1911
- Maguire v. KieselSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1913
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