Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Citation
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Parent Document
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Jurisdiction
- Connecticut (state)
- Effective Date
- 1997-07-15
Other Sections in This Document (39)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
- Sheridan v. Desmond, 45 Conn. App. 686 (1997)
Full Text
1,331 charsThe plaintiffs also assert that the defendant ratified Desmond’s actions by not acting to stop him when he erected the barriers. We are unpersuaded. Ratification is defined as “the affirmance by a person of a prior act which did not bind him but which was done or professedly done on his account . . . [requiring an] acceptance of the results of the act with an intent to ratify, and with full knowledge of all the material circumstances. . . . Russell v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., 200 Conn. 172, 185, 510 A.2d 972 (1986).” (Citations omitted; internal quotation marks omitted.) Gerber & Hurley, Inc. v. CCC Corp., 36 Conn. App. 539, 542, 651 A.2d 1302 (1995). Here, the plaintiffs failed to prove that Desmond’s actions in digging the trench and erecting the barriers were done on the defendant’s account. Furthermore, the defendant testified that she did not intervene in Desmond’s actions because both the trench and barriers were located on his property, in which she *697did not have an ownership interest. The plaintiffs did not offer any evidence to the contrary and failed to adduce evidence from which the jury could have found that the defendant intended to ratify Desmond’s actions. Accordingly, we conclude that the jury could not reasonably have found that the defendant authorized or ratified Desmond’s actions. Ill