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- Title: Cicero v. E. B. K
- Author : Supreme Court of Connecticut
- Release Date : January 25, 1974
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 54 KB
Description
The plaintiff, while visiting a
bar as a patron, suffered injuries when shot by
another patron with a gun kept on the premises by
the defendants, the owner and permittee of the
bar. A negligence action for damages against the
owner and permittee resulted in a plaintiff's
verdict and the defendants have appealed from the
judgment rendered thereon, assigning as error
several paragraphs of the court's charge to the
jury, the court's denial of their motion to set
aside the verdict as not supported by the
evidence, two rulings on evidence and a number of
paragraphs of the finding, which is not subject to
correction.1 We will discuss separately the
assignments pertaining to liability and damages. We consider first the assignments of error
addressed to that portion of the charge relating
to liability, the correctness of which normally
is determined by the claims of proof of the
respective parties. Practice Book 635; Gosselin
v. Perry, 166 Conn. 152, 154 n.1, 348 A.2d 623.
Here, however, the defendants' attack on the
court's charge with respect to liability simply
claims error "because it did not adequately or
correctly state the law governing the liability
of the defendant [sic] under the circumstances
of this case." They have failed to point out,
either in their assignment of errors or
[166 Conn. 493]
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