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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Gore v. People's Savings Bank, 235 Conn. 360 (1995)

Citation
Gore v. People's Savings Bank, 235 Conn. 360 (1995)
Parent Document
Gore v. People's Savings Bank, 235 Conn. 360 (1995)
Jurisdiction
Connecticut (state)
Effective Date
1995-10-10

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The plaintiffs, on the other hand, concur with the Appellate Court’s analysis of the case according to the general tort principles of negligence per se and strict liability. The Appellate Court concluded that a violation of §§ 47a-8 and 47a-54f constitutes negligence per se, and that, because these statutory provisions do not expressly provide landlords the opportunity for proving the “excuse” of lack of notice, landlords are strictly liable for damages resulting from the violations upon proof of proximate causation. Gore v. People’s Savings *372Bank, supra, 35 Conn. App. 136. The plaintiffs agree with this analysis. In concluding as it did, however, the Appellate Court did not address the analysis of the trial court or otherwise reconcile the apparent conflict between its analysis premised on negligence per se and the trial court’s approach premised on the common law elements of landlord liability.