Dewire v. Hanley
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to restrain the defendant from obstructing a passway, and for damages, brought to and tried by the Court of Common Pleas in Litchfield County, Coats, Acting-Judge; facts found" and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
On November 12th, 1888, Samuel Brooker deeded to the plaintiff a piece of land in Torrington, containing about 75 square rods, and the southerly boundary of this land was on the grantor’s own land, on a line running parallel with the northerly side of a stone-wall and thirty feet northerly therefrom.- This stone-wall was substantially three and a half feet thick, and formed the boundary between said Brooker’s land on the north and the defendant’s land and land of John Looby on the south, the defendant’s land being easterly of said Looby’s.
The defendant acquired his land in 1874, by a warranty…
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