Case Name: BEATRICE DYM vs. MERIT OIL CORP.
Court: Connecticut Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1943-03-30
Citations: 12 Conn. Supp. 37
Docket Number: File No. 62184
Parties: BEATRICE DYM vs. MERIT OIL CORP.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Supplement
Volume: 12
Pages: 37–37

Head Matter:
BEATRICE DYM vs. MERIT OIL CORP.
Superior Court New Haven County
File No. 62184
MEMORANDUM FILED MARCH 30, 1943.
William M. Pomeranz, of Hartford, for the Plaintiff.
Frederick C. Hesselmeyer, of New Haven, for the Defendant.

Opinion:
WYNNE, J.
The jury could have found from the evidence that exposed pits over four feet deep were maintained on premises of the defendant without being roped off or fenced in at night. The premises are at the corner of two busy streets near the center of a sizeable city. The court's conception of the duty owing to the public coincides with that which the jury evidently had. Unless the injured person were an evil intruder, it seems foolish to split hairs as to whether she was an invitee or technical trespasser where a defendant maintained premises in the condition that these admittedly were.
The motion to set aside is denied.