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MURPHY v. IVES

151 Conn. 259 (1963)

THOMAS P. MURPHY, ADMINISTRATOR (ESTATE OF THOMAS MURPHY) v. HOWARD S. IVES, HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER EILEEN DONNELLY v. HOWARD S. IVES, HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided December 17, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Kinney, Jr., with whom, on the brief, was Edward M. Reynolds, for the appellant (plaintiff in the first case).

David M. Reilly, Jr., for the appellant (plaintiff in the second case).

J. Kenneth Bradley, with whom were William B. Rush and, on the brief, Francis A. Smith, Jr., Edgar W. Bassick III and A. Reynolds Gordon, for the appellee (defendant in each case).

KING, C. J., MURPHY, SHEA, ALCORN and PALMER, JS.

KING, C. J.

These two cases involve separate but similar accidents, each involving the collision of an automobile with an abutment on a highway maintained by the defendant. They were separately heard in the trial court but on appeal were argued together.

In the Murphy case, suit was instituted against the defendant, as highway commissioner, for the recovery of damages for the wrongful death of the plaintiff's intestate...

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