Nolan v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries resulting in the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, brought to the Superior Court in Faiifield County and heard in damages to the court, George W. Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $5,000 damages, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The facts on which liability is claimed, are alleged in the third and fourth paragraphs of the complaint.
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Action to recover damages for personal injuries resulting in the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, brought to the Superior Court in Faiifield County and heard in damages to the court, George W. Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $5,000 damages, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The facts on which liability is claimed, are alleged in the third and fourth paragraphs of the complaint. The third paragraph avers that on March 12th, 1896, the defendant ran a freight train south on its road and followed that train with a…
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
The finding of facts upon which judgment is founded, contains a statement in detail of inferences produced, in whole or in part, by weighing evidence and the credit to be given witnesses, and also of the conclusions drawn from these inferences. The former are called facts, as denoting adjudicated facts which can only be retried by an appellate court having jurisdiction in the trials of such facts. This court does not have appellate jurisdiction of that nature; the Superior Court is the court of last resort for that purpose, and its adjudication of such facts, in the exercise of original or…
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