Case Name: Hawley v. County of Litchfield
Court: Connecticut Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1790-02
Citations: 1 Root 155
Docket Number: 
Parties: Hawley v. County of Litchfield.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 155–155

Head Matter:
Hawley v. County of Litchfield.
In an action for an escape through tlie insufficiency of tlie gaol, special damages only were given.

Opinion:
ActioN for tlie escape of Benajah Hawley, who was in prison on an execution, and escaped through the insufficiency of the gaol: Judgment against the comity, and for £20, the special damages only; the execution, being for a much greater sum. See Staphorse v. County of New Haven, August Term, A. D. 1789.