BIRD v. CONNECTICUT POWER CO.


144 Conn. 456 (1957)

VIGGO E. BIRD v. THE CONNECTICUT POWER COMPANY ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided July 2, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morgan P. Ames, with whom, on the brief, was Clifford B. Oviatt, Jr., for the appellant (plaintiff).

Cyril Coleman, with whom, on the brief, were H. Bissell Carey, Jr., and Edmund W. O'Brien, for the appellees (defendants).

BALDWIN, O'SULLIVAN, WYNNE, KING and MURPHY, JS.


WYNNE, J.

The plaintiff instituted this action to recover pension payments alleged to be due from the defendants. Upon the trial of the case to the jury, the court directed a verdict in favor of the defendants. The plaintiff has appealed, assigning as error the direction of the verdict, the refusal to set it aside, and certain rulings on evidence which, in the view we take of the case, have become academic.

Considered in the light most favorable to the plaintiff...

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