Court Opinion

ID: 9758511
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Date Created: 2023-08-28 23:34:08.084076+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:28:52.470303
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House, C. J.
(dissenting). I agree with the conclusion of the majority opinion that the trial court properly sustained the demurrer of the defendant Lenox Homes, Inc., addressed to the first three counts of the amended complaint, but I do not agree that it erred in sustaining the demurrer to the fourth count and would find no error in the judgment from which the appeal was taken.
I find nothing in the allegation of the fourth count which would make inapplicable “the well-established rule that where the work of an independent contractor is completed, turned over to, and accepted by the owner, the contractor is not liable to third persons for damages or injuries subsequently suffered by reason of the condition of the work, even though he was negligent in carrying out the contract.” Bogoratt v. Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co., 114 Conn. 126, 142, 157 A. 860. We have heretofore consis*577tently followed this rule. See Wright v. Coe & Anderson, Inc., 156 Conn. 145, 151, 239 A.2d 493; Del Gaudio v. Ingerson, 142 Conn. 564, 568, 115 A.2d 665; Howard v. Redden, 93 Conn. 604, 612, 107 A. 509; see also annot., 58 A.L.R.2d 865, and 13 A.L.R.2d 191: “Negligence of building or construction contractor as ground of liability upon his part for injury or damage to third person occurring after completion and acceptance of the work.”
I find no error in the judgment of the trial court.