Chazen v. City of New Britain

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding no highway defect because plaintiff chose to cross area not intended for pedestrian travel, rather than using provided travel path
• “[w]hether a condition in a highway constitutes a defect must be determined in each case on its own particular circumstances”
• ‘‘a [state] is not an insurer against accidents occurring on its highways; its duty is not to make the streets abso- lutely safe for the users thereof but only to exercise reasonable care to keep them in a reasonably safe condi- tion for travel’’
• “[sjince it is not intended that there shall be travel on such areas, travelers who leave the way provided for them and attempt to cross such areas may not assume that the areas are free from danger or unusual conditions, as travelers may do in the use of the traveled way”
• water drain within street limits

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).