DocketNumber: No. 308835
Citation Numbers: 1992 Conn. Super. Ct. 5535, 7 Conn. Super. Ct. 839
Judges: <footnote_body>[EDITOR'S NOTE: This case is unpublished as indicated by the issuing court.]</footnote_body> MAIOCCO, JUDGE
Filed Date: 6/26/1992
Status: Non-Precedential
Modified Date: 11/7/2016
On December 12, 1990 the plaintiff, Wendi Kopsick, filed a CT Page 5536 one-count complaint against the defendant Yale University. The plaintiff alleges in her complaint that she was assaulted while en route between her dormitory and the Sterling Library. The plaintiff further alleges in her complaint, that the injuries she suffered from the assault were proximately caused by the defendant's negligence, inter alia, the failure to provide proper security measures.
On April 30, 1992, the defendant filed a motion to strike the plaintiff's one-count complaint pursuant to Practice Book 151, with an accompanying memorandum of law, on the ground that the defendant's alleged negligence was not, as a matter of law, the legal cause of the plaintiff's damages.
The plaintiff filed a memorandum in opposition to the defendant's motion on May 12, 1992.
A motion to strike is "a means of challenging the sufficiency of a pleading." Mingachos v. CBS, Inc.,
A court, in reviewing a motion to strike, "is limited to considering the grounds specified in the motion." Meredith v. Police Commissioner,
The ground upon which the defendant seeks to strike the plaintiff's complaint, that the defendant's alleged negligence is not, as a matter of law, the proximate cause of the plaintiff's CT Page 5537 injuries, is not a proper ground for a motion to strike under Practice Book 152. Accordingly, the defendant's motion to strike is denied.
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