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Title: Leary v. Johnson
Author : Supreme Court of Connecticut
Release Date : January 21, 1970
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 53 KB

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The plaintiff brought this action to recover
damages for injuries alleged to have been received
in a fall on a wet floor in the defendants' house.
When all the evidence was in, the court directed
a verdict for the defendants. The plaintiff appeals
from the final judgment and assigns as error the
refusal to set the verdict aside. "In reviewing
the action of the trial court, in first directing
and thereafter refusing to set aside the verdict,
we consider the evidence in the light most favorable
to the plaintiff." Johnson v. Consolidated Industries,
Inc., 153 Conn. 522, 524, 218 A.2d 380. The jury could reasonably and logically have
found the following facts: The plaintiff and her
husband had agreed with Louis F. and Eileen Albano
to share the profit or loss in the sale of a house
built on property owned by Mr. Albano in Greenwich.
The defendant Mary Johnson, who lived in Wayne,
Pennsylvania, with her husband, first saw the
house in January, 1960, and she and her husband
[159 Conn. 103]