Jacko v. American Tube & Stamping Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County where the plaintiff was nonsuited in a trial to the jury before Gager, J., and from the refusal of the trial court to set aside this judgment he appealed. From the evidence the following facts might reasonably have been found:— The plaintiff was injured while working in the defendant’s shop.
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Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County where the plaintiff was nonsuited in a trial to the jury before Gager, J., and from the refusal of the trial court to set aside this judgment he appealed. From the evidence the following facts might reasonably have been found:— The plaintiff was injured while working in the defendant’s shop. The building was three stories in height, each being some twelve to fifteen feet between floors and having windows on the two sides and one end. Each…
1Per curiam
The court granted the nonsuit, which it afterward refused to set aside, upon the ground that the plaintiff had failed to offer prima facie proof of either negligence on the part of the defendant or the absence of contributory negligence on the part of the plaintiff. Assuming that there was evidence which the plaintiff was entitled to have submitted to the jury in support of the allegation that the defendant was negligent in not providing a call-bell or other suitable device for summoning the elevator-man, there was such lack of evidence of the plaintiff’s exercise of due ' care that prima…
2Cited by1 opinion
- Fine v. Connecticut Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1917