STATE v. TIPPETTS-ABBETT-MCCARTHY-STRATTON

(13049), (13050)

204 Conn. 177 (1987)

STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. TIPPETTS-ABBETT-MCCARTHY-STRATTON STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. KNAPPEN-TIPPETTS-ABBETT-MCCARTHY ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released June 23, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arnold J. Bai, with whom were Garie J. Mulcahey, Robert J. Morrin, assistant attorney general, and, on the brief, Joseph I. Lieberman, attorney general, and Arnold K. Shimelman, assistant attorney general, for the appellant (state).

William B. Rush, with whom was Sharon A. Cregeen, for the appellees (defendants in each case).

PETERS, C. J., HEALEY, SHEA, CALLAHAN and SPALLONE, JS.


PETERS, C. J.

The dispositive issue in these appeals is the propriety of the trial court's refusal to allow the jury to consider whether the defendants were liable to the plaintiff under a theory of absolute public nuisance. The defendants, Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton and Knappen-Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy,1 designed and supervised the construction of the Mianus River bridge (the bridge) on the Connecticut Turnpike in Greenwich. On...

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