BIRGEL v. HEINTZ


163 Conn. 23 (1972)

CAROL L. BIRGEL ET AL. v. HOWARD T. HEINTZ ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided April 19, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter M. Ryan, with whom was Joseph J. Rucci, Jr., for the appellant (named plaintiff).

Noel R. Newman, with whom, on the brief, was Edgar W. Krentzman, for the appellees (defendants).

HOUSE, C. J., RYAN, SHAPIRO, LOISELLE and FITZGERALD, JS.


SHAPIRO, J.

On August 3, 1968, an automobile owned by the defendant Howard T. Heintz and operated by his son the defendant John T. Heintz left the traveled portion of the Merritt Parkway in the town of New Canaan and struck a concrete bridge abutment. A passenger in the vehicle, Carol Linda Birgel, hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff, then twenty years old, was severely injured. A suit in her behalf was instituted by...

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