Welles v. Rhodes
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit for the removal of a cloud upon a title, for a discovery, and for an injunction against the prosecution of an action at law; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County. The principal allegations of the complaint were as follows:— “ 1. That the plaintiff is now, and for many years last past has been, the owner and possessor in fee simple of a certain piece of land in the town of Glastonbury, [giving the boundaries], which land is of the value of 11,000 and upwards.
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Suit for the removal of a cloud upon a title, for a discovery, and for an injunction against the prosecution of an action at law; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County. The principal allegations of the complaint were as follows:— “ 1. That the plaintiff is now, and for many years last past has been, the owner and possessor in fee simple of a certain piece of land in the town of Glastonbury, [giving the boundaries], which land is of the value of 11,000 and upwards. “ 2. The defendant now makes a claim that in some way he is entitled to an interest in some part of said land or the…
1Opinion of the CourtTorrance, J.
The complaint in this case alleges that the plaintiff is the owner and possessor in fee simple of certain lands in the town of Glastonbury; that “ the defendant now makes a claim that in some way he is entitled to an interest in some part of said land, or in the whole of it, but of what nature the interest which the defendant claims therein is, or how it arises, the plaintiff is ignorant, and the defendant refuses to inform her; ” that the defendant has brought an action of trespass against the plaintiff and others, returnable to and now pending in the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford…
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