Buck v. Goodrich
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Case, by husband and wife, for an injury to the land of the latter by the wrongful flowing of the same by the defendants.
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Case, by husband and wife, for an injury to the land of the latter by the wrongful flowing of the same by the defendants. There was but a single count in the declaration, which was as follows:— “ Then and there to answer unto Daniel Buck, and Mary Buck his wife, in a plea of the case, whereupon the plaintiffs declare and say that the said Mary, on or about the 29th day of October, 1860, was and ever since has been lawfully possessed in her own right in fpe of a certain tract of land, situate in said town of Windsor, containing seventy acres more or less, bounded north on ' Farmington River,…
1Opinion of the CourtPark, J.
The declaration in this case counts upon a permanent injury committed to the real estate of Mary Buck, the wife. It.commences by describing a lot Of land.belonging to her in fee. It then sets forth “ that the defendants, intending to injure the said land, and to deprive the said Mary of all benefit thereof, and to destroy the soil and'sub *41stance of the same,” did <fcc. 'It then alleges that, by reason of the premises, “ said land, with the soil, substance, and body thereof, have been greatly injured and damnified, to the great hurt and'prejudice of said Mary’s estate therein, and to the…
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- Fuller v. Naugatuck RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1852
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