CARNEY v. DEWEES


136 Conn. 256 (1949)

ROSEMARY CARNEY, ADMINISTRATRIX (ESTATE OF WILLIAM CARNEY) v. MERLE W. DEWEES ET AL. HELEN G. BESCHEL, ADMINISTRATRIX (ESTATE OF FREDERICK K. BESCHEL) v. MERLE W. DEWEES ET AL. ROBERT CARANGELO v. MERLE W. DEWEES ET AL. ROGER FRECHETTE v. MERLE W. DEWEES ET AL. THOMAS DOLAN v. MERLE W. DEWEES ET AL. RALPH O'CONNOR v. MERLE W. DEWEES ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided December 13, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph G. Shapiro and Milton H. Belinkie, for the appellants (defendants).

Edward L. Reynolds, with whom were Thomas R. FitzSimmons, Francis J. Moran, David M. Reilly and, on the brief, John J. Kinney, Jr., for the appellees (plaintiffs).

MALTBIE, C. J., BROWN, JENNINGS, ELLS AND DICKENSON, JS.


BROWN, J.

In each of these six cases, which were tried together, there was a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, and it is agreed that the decision upon the appeal in the Carney case shall be determinative of each of the other five appeals. The cases arose out of an accident in which the two plaintiffs' intestates and the four other plaintiffs, as they rode in the body of a dump truck owned by Valentino, were thrown out and injured, the two mortally. The accident...

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