[DOWNLOAD] "Kaplan v. Merberg Wrecking Corporation" by Supreme Court of Connecticut # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Kaplan v. Merberg Wrecking Corporation
- Author : Supreme Court of Connecticut
- Release Date : January 25, 1965
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 69 KB
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This is an action in which the plaintiffs seek to recover from the defendant corporation, hereinafter referred to as Merberg, the amount of a judgment rendered against them in the case of Bonczkiewicz v. Merberg Wrecking Corporation, 148 Conn. 573, 172 A.2d 917, together with counsel fees and other costs incurred in defending that action and in prosecuting this one. The Bonczkiewicz case involved negligence actions for personal injuries and wrongful death which arose when pedestrians on the sidewalk were struck by a portion of the front wall of a burned out building, owned by the present plaintiffs and then being razed by Merberg, as an independent contractor. After all other defendants in that case, including Merberg, had settled the claims against them and obtained covenants not to sue, verdicts totaling $22,500 over and above the settlements which the plaintiffs in the Bonczkiewicz case had received were returned against the present plaintiffs, who were then the only defendants left in that case. See Dwy v. Connecticut Co., 89 Conn. 74, 95, 92 A. 883; Restatement, 4 Torts 885(2) and (3). The plaintiffs claim reimbursement for the amount of the judgment, which they have paid, on two theories: the first for breach of contract and the second on an implied obligation of indemnity for Merberg's claimed primary negligence. They claim that their contract with Merberg, printed in the footnote,1 required Merberg to take all precautions