(DOWNLOAD) "Bonczkiewicz v. Merberg Wrecking Corporation" by Supreme Court of Connecticut # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Bonczkiewicz v. Merberg Wrecking Corporation
- Author : Supreme Court of Connecticut
- Release Date : January 18, 1961
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 71 KB
Description
The plaintiffs Pearl Bonczkiewicz, Phyllis
Young, Ronald Bonczkiewicz, a minor, and
Vicky Lee Young, also a minor, sued to recover
damages for personal injuries, and the plaintiff
Stanley Bonczkiewicz, as administrator of the
estate of Edward J. Bonczkiewicz, a deceased
infant, sued to recover damages for the decedent's
wrongful death. The injuries and death were
claimed to have been caused by the negligence of
the defendants in the demolition of a building on
West Main Street, in Meriden, in the heart of
the retail shopping district. There was little
difference in the claims of proof of the parties
as to most of the circumstances of the accident.
The interior of the building had been almost
completely destroyed by fire on April 3, 1958. The
walls, especially the front wall which immediately
abutted the public sidewalk, were so weakened that
they were in danger of falling unless demolished. After the fire, Louis Merberg of the Merberg
Wrecking Corporation approached George Kaplan,
principal officer of a tenant, Growers' Exchange,
Inc., hereinafter referred to as Growers; It
conducted a supermarket which was the largest of the
five retail stores which had occupied the building.
Kaplan was a brother-in-law of the defendant Sarah
Kaplan, who, with the defendant Celia Feinstein,
owned the building. Louis Merberg, on behalf of
the wrecking corporation, sought the job of razing
[148 Conn. 576]