Hamilton v. Smith
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to restrain the defendants from removing buoys and stakes marking the boundary of the plaintiff’s oyster-ground, and for damages, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County'and tried to the court, Hubbard, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings and findings of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
In 1866 the town of East Haven designated to sundry persons respectively, in square one-acre lots, certain oyster-grounds in Morris Cove, in accordance with, and by the lot numbers given on, a map made in May of that year, for the purpose, by Wm. Hartley, a county surveyor. When he made his survey he marked the situation of each lot by stakes, buoys or stones, and tagged one of the stakes with the number assigned to that lot on the map.
This map was drawn approximately, though not accurately, to a scale. The east and west side lines of each lot were at right angles to a base line upon the map…
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