Connecticut General Statutes

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 52-225 (2026)

Judgment on verdict; assessment of damages when judgment rendered other than on verdict

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The court shall render judgment on all verdicts of the jury, according to their finding, with costs, unless the verdict is set aside; and in all cases where judgment is rendered otherwise than on a verdict, in favor of the plaintiff, the court shall assess the damages which he shall recover.

(1949 Rev., S. 7974.)

Assessment of damages in U.S. courts should follow practice of the state courts. 43 C. 599. Default admits the right of plaintiff to nominal damages only. 44 C. 501; 45 C. 58; 53 C. 193; Id., 474. Long before 1818, damages were assessed by the court upon a default or demurrer overruled. 53 C. 2. Applies to all cases where judgment is rendered otherwise than on a verdict. 57 C. 585. Cited. 63 C. 266. Assessment on alternative finding is erroneous. 71 C. 452; 72 C. 624. When motion for judgment non obstante veredicto lies; not for variance. 91 C. 249. Judgments non obstante veredicto reviewed. 131 C. 622. Unless verdict is set aside, interest runs from date of verdict. 145 C. 74. Rule as to setting aside of verdict as against the evidence, reviewed. 146 C. 658, 705; 147 C. 18, 109. If a jury's final decision is unintelligible and inconsistent, a motion to set aside the verdict should be granted; motion to reassemble the jury and, or in the alternative, to correct the verdict should be denied. Id., 72. While a memorandum of decision is not required on denial of a motion to set aside the verdict, but only the granting of it, it is sound practice, where the motion is not frivolous, to set forth in a memorandum the basic reasons why the motion is denied. Id., 566. Trial court correct in setting aside verdict and in granting motion for judgment notwithstanding verdict as plaintiff did not establish a breach of duty by defendant. Id., 708. Time within which motions in arrest of judgment must be filed. 148 C. 57. Setting aside verdict by trial judge for error in instructions to jury (here, failure to explain meaning of “rebuttable presumption”) should be exercised with great caution and only where judge is satisfied error is unmistakable and unquestionably harmful. 155 C. 220. Plaintiff filed motion to set aside verdict of jury for defendant; trial court, 22 months thereafter having neither decided motion nor entered judgment, ordered to forthwith grant or deny motion. 159 C. 605. Cited. 225 C. 420; 231 C. 77.

Verdict of jury should not be set aside lightly. 21 CS 28. Court refused to set aside verdict where evidence on issue of contributory negligence was close. Id., 282. Cited. 29 CA 484; 38 CA 685.

Cited. 3 Conn. Cir. Ct. 82. Where defendant did not move to set aside verdict, appeal court cannot decide whether jury erred in concluding defendant was guilty. 5 Conn. Cir. Ct. 334.

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Notes of Decisions

Cited in 7 cases, 1964–2018 · leading case: Trinity Christian Sch. v. Comm'n on Human Rights, 189 A.3d 79 (Conn. 2018).

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Trinity Christian Sch. v. Comm'n on Human Rights, 189 A.3d 79 (Conn. 2018). · cites it 4× “…the General Statutes and title 52. See, e.g., General Statutes § 52-146t (j) ; 8 General Statutes § 52-190b ; 9 **696 General Statutes § 52-225d (g) ; 10 General Statutes § 52-225 l (e) ; 11 General Statutes § 52-292 ; 12 General Statutes § 52-557q. 13 That subsection (d) was…”

Ginsberg v. Fusaro, 623 A.2d 1014 (Conn. 1993). · cites it 2× “” General Statutes § 52-225 provides: “The court shall render judgment on all verdicts of the jury, according to their finding, with costs, unless the verdict is set aside; and in all cases where judgment is rendered otherwise than on a verdict, in favor of the plaintiff, the…”

Lawrence v. New Hampshire Ins., 616 A.2d 806 (Conn. App. Ct. 1992). “On April 29,1991, 6 the defendant filed a motion for modification or correction under General Statutes § 52-419 (a) (l) 7 in which it requested *494 that the court reduce the award by the amount of collateral source payments under § 52-225.”

Bower v. D'Onfro, 663 A.2d 1061 (Conn. App. Ct. 1995). “This interpretation of the statute comes from the Supreme Court’s well established principles of statutory construction.”

Tough v. Ives, 268 A.2d 371 (Conn. 1970). · cites it 2× “As the case stands, therefore, a jury verdict was returned, accepted by the court and ordered recorded, but no judgment has ever been rendered on that verdict, nor has the court in the past twenty-two months either granted or denied the motion to set aside the verdict.”

Steding v. Battistoni, 208 A.2d 559 (Conn. App. Ct. 1964). · cites it 2× “See General Statutes § 52-225; Practice Book §§ 254, 800.”

State v. Pontillo, 252 A.2d 141 (Conn. App. Ct. 1968). · cites it 2× “See General Statutes § 52-225; Practice Book §§ 254, 800.”

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