Supreme Court of Connecticut
George W. Northrup v. Henry J. Witkowski, Jr. — Ecker, J., Dissenting
July 2, 2019332 Conn. 158
Summary
Justice Ecker dissented from the court's decision to treat municipal construction, maintenance, and repair of storm-water drainage systems as discretionary acts protected by governmental immunity. The dissent would have retained the established rule that negligent construction, maintenance, and repair are ministerial functions and would have held that the plaintiffs presented sufficient evidence to defeat summary judgment. The dissent also maintained that the governing immunity statute codified, rather than displaced, that distinction.