Goodman v. Jewett
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of ejectment, brought originally to the city court of the city of Hartford, demanding surrendry and peaceable possession of the premises described in the declaration, and the sum of ninety dollars damages. To the plaintiff’s declaration the defendant demurred generally. The court adjudged the declaration sufficient, and thereupon rendered judgment for the plaintiff.
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This was an action of ejectment, brought originally to the city court of the city of Hartford, demanding surrendry and peaceable possession of the premises described in the declaration, and the sum of ninety dollars damages. To the plaintiff’s declaration the defendant demurred generally. The court adjudged the declaration sufficient, and thereupon rendered judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant thereupon appealed the cause to the superior court, for Hartford county, and at the term of said court holden in March, 1856, the plaintiff moved that it be erased from the docket, on the ground…
1Opinion of the CourtStores, J.
This is an action of ejectment brought to the city court of the city of Hartford; and the question is, whether it is appealable to the superior court.
*589The charter of that city, passed in 1784, provided that an appeal should be allowed from the judgment of the city court, in all cases in which an appeal then was, or thereafter by law should be, allowed from the county courts. We are, therefore, only to determine whether this action would have been appealable, if it had been brought to the county court. It would, in that case, have been plainly appealable, under the fifth section of the act of…
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