Nichols v. City of Bridgeport
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Writ of error. The same ease had been formerly reserved by the superior court for the advice of this court, and judgment had been rendered in accordance with the advice given.
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Writ of error. The same ease had been formerly reserved by the superior court for the advice of this court, and judgment had been rendered in accordance with the advice given. See 23 Conn., 189. The writ cff error set out, as a part of the record of the case, the statement of facts made at that time by the judge of the superior court for the advice of this court thereon and upon which the advice of this court had been given, and the assignment of errors was based upon the facts so stated. There was no other finding of the facts. The counsel for the'plaintiff in e ror were about to argue the…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, C. J.
We recently held, in the ease of Smith v. Lewis, (26 Conn., 110,) that it was not competent for a party, after a case had been reserved for our advice, to review, by writ of error, questions which were involved and decided by us on such reservation. Those decisions would of course embrace the subordinate points involved in those questions and upon which they must have depended. We think that that case should govern the present in regard to all the questions which have been now made before us, and that the decisions which we made when this case was reserved must be deemed to be the law of the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Nichols v. City of BridgeportSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1854
- Smith v. LewisSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1857
- Chambers v. CampbellSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1843
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