Furlong 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 and alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence, brought to the Superior Court in New London County and tried to the jury before Case, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $4,000, and appeal by the defendant. In this court the plaintiff and appellee filed a plea in abatement to the defendant’s appeal as originally taken and as subsequently amended.
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Action to recover damages for personal injuries resulting in the death of the plaintiff’s intestate and alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence, brought to the Superior Court in New London County and tried to the jury before Case, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $4,000, and appeal by the defendant. In this court the plaintiff and appellee filed a plea in abatement to the defendant’s appeal as originally taken and as subsequently amended. Plea dismissd. The decedent, Frank A. Furlong, was on the 10th of November, 1908, killed by a collision of the defendant’s…
1Opinion of the CourtHall, C. J.
The pleas in abatement to the two appeals to this court, afterward united in one by amendment, are dismissed. The words in the appeal of July 3d, 1909, describing the court, and the time and place of holding it, to which it was asked that the evidence be reported, were evidently intended to apply also to the appeal, and to describe the court and the time and place of holding it, to which the appeal was taken, This description was sufficient to permit the appeal of April 28th, 1910, to be joined with that of July 3d, by amendment. Stillman v. Thompson, 80 Conn. 192, 194, 67 Atl. 528. The two…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Nolan v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1898
- McElligott v. RandolphSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1891
- Coppins v. N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R.New York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Hartford Building & Loan Ass'n v. GoldreyerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1898
- Rincicotti v. John J. O'Brien Contracting Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1905
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