Gordon v. Bridgeport Housing Authority, 208 Conn. 161 (1988)

Citation: Gordon v. Bridgeport Housing Authority, 208 Conn. 161 (1988)
Parent Document: Gordon v. Bridgeport Housing Authority, 208 Conn. 161 (1988)
Jurisdiction: Connecticut (state)
Effective Date: 1988-07-05
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/7893244/gordon-v-bridgeport-housing-authority/ ↗

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The plaintiff next asserts that the facts pleaded in her complaint, construed most favorably to her, would give rise to a violation of a ministerial duty by the defendants. As explained above, a ministerial duty is one imposed for acts performed without the exercise of discretion. Gauvin v. New Haven, supra. The third and fourth counts allege that the city failed to provide either adequate security or police protection to this housing project that the plaintiff claims was owned by the city. The trial court implicitly determined, as a matter of law, that the city did not own this housing project. Although the trial court did not specifically state that the city of Bridgeport was not the owner of the Marina Apartments housing project, it did determine that the city did not have responsibility to maintain the premises since the “Housing Authority is an independent body corporate and politic [General Statutes § 8-40] and is not an agency of the city.” It would be incongruous to believe that the trial court would factor into its decision concerning responsibility for maintenance of the housing project the issue of agency without having previously decided that the city itself did not own the project. Had the city owned the project, a discussion about agency by the trial court would have been unnecessary.

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