Barber v. Manchester
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages .for personal injuries claimed to have been caused by the defendants’ negligence, brought to the Superior Court in Litchfield County and tried to the court, Shumway, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings and findings of the court.
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Action to recover damages .for personal injuries claimed to have been caused by the defendants’ negligence, brought to the Superior Court in Litchfield County and tried to the court, Shumway, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings and findings of the court. The court found that on the day in question the plaintiff Caroline E. Barber was riding, as an invited guest, in a carriage in company with her daughter and granddaughter, along a highway in the borough of Winsted. This road was traveled about the same, as the…
1Opinion of the Court
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J. A discussion of the several exceptions of the plaintiff to the finding of facts, is unnecessary. An examination of the evidence made a part of the record, shows that the finding contains all the facts proved which are material to a proper presentation of the questions of law decided by the court below. There was no error in the refusal to make the requested corrections.
Proof that the plaintiff’s horse was one of ordinary gentleness, and was frightened by the noise of the machinery, without fault of the plaintiff, does not necessarily render the defendants liable for the injury…
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