Broughel v. Southern New England Telephone Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for negligence resulting in the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and heard in damages to the court, Gteorge W. Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for nominal damages only, and appeal by him for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Action to recover damages for negligence resulting in the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and heard in damages to the court, Gteorge W. Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for nominal damages only, and appeal by him for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The complaint, in paragraph 4, alleged that the defendant “ negligently, recklessly, wilfully and wrongfully cut wires belonging to the Hartford Electric Light Company, and by so doing caused an electric current to pass through the plaintiff’s…
1Opinion of the CourtTorrance, J.
The trial court rendered judgment for the plaintiff for nominal damages only. From that judgment the plaintiff alone appealed. Upon that appeal the only grievance of which he complains is that the court gave him nominal instead of substantial damages. He is satisfied with the finding of facts as made. His only claim is that the trial court misapprehended the law in giving him only nominal damages.
The defendant did not appeal from the judgment, but it filed a bill of exceptions which, as allowed by the court, appears in the record. The questions raised in that bill, however, are not…
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- Goodsell v. Hartford & New Haven RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1865
- Murphy v. New York & New Haven RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1861
- Watson v. New Milford Water Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1899
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