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- Title: Royal Home, Inc. v. Dalene Hardwood Flooring Co.
- Author : Supreme Court of Connecticut
- Release Date : January 12, 1964
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 67 KB
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In this action, the plaintiff seeks damages for injury to property caused by a fire in a dwelling house which it was building in East Windsor. The complaint alleged that the fire occurred because of the defendant's negligence. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant, and from the judgment rendered thereon the plaintiff has appealed to this court, relying on certain claims of error in the charge to the jury. In considering such claims, we must test the charge by the claims of proof advanced by the parties as those claims appear in the finding. Practice Book, 1963, 609; Franks v. Lockwood, 146 Conn. 273, 279, 150 A.2d 215. It appears from the finding that the plaintiff made the following claims of proof. The plaintiff was a builder engaged in the construction of private residences, and, on April 23, 1958, it was building a dwelling house on a lot owned by it in East Windsor. In the previous November, it had entered into a contract with the defendant for the furnishing, installation, sanding and finishing of the floors. Prior to April 22, 1958, all of this work had been