Fenwick Hall Co. v. Town of Old Saybrook
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to restrain the defendants from selling certain real estate of the plaintiff, or placing any lien thereon, brought to the Superior Court of Middlesex County and tried to the court, Hall, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendants for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHamebsley, J.
The plaintiff is owner of the hotel known as Fenwick Hall in the town of Old Saybrook, and of the piece of land on which the same is built. This property is *37separated from another portion of the town by an estuary of Long Island Sound, about three quarters of a mile in width. Many years ago the plaintiff or its predecessors in title, for the purpose of rendering said hotel convenient of access, expended a large sum in constructing a bridge across this estuary, and has maintained the same at its own expense. William L. Matson and others owning land in the neighborhood of the hotel, applied to…
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