Case Over Girl’s Crushed Skull Revived in CT
Good decision from the Judge in this case.
A landlord must face claims over the concrete that crushed a 7-year-old’s skull after a boy chucked it from his apartment, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled.
The ruling notes that Victory Properties LLC was aware of the poor conditions outside of its six-family apartment building at 138 North Street in New Britain.
In addition to the discarded home furnishings and abandoned car wreck that took up space in the back yard that young tenants used as a playground, “chunks of concrete were lying about, along with piles of construction material, trash and rocks” because of the deteriorating concrete sidewalks and retaining walls, the record shows.
The owner of Victory Properties, who served as the building manager, allegedly knew that tenants had concerns about these conditions since their children would play with the broken concrete and other debris.
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