Ryan v. George L. Lilley Co.

The defendant is the owner of a building on West Main Street, Waterbury, which stands immediately adjacent to the sidewalk, the first floor of which is occupied by stores and the second by offices. There extends along the face of the building over the first story and about fourteen feet above the sidewalk a wooden cornice covered with metal which projects beyond the face of the building about one foot, as claimed by the plaintiff, and seven or eight inches, as claimed by the defendant, and which has a pitch downward from the wall of the building of one inch, as claimed by the plaintiff, and…