New York, Bridgeport & Eastern Railway Co. v. Motil
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action under General Statutes, § 4053, to settle the title to a parcel of land, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Fairfield County and heard before Scott, Jjudgment for defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, C. J.
This action is to settle the title to land conveyed in 1884 by one Hodges to the New York and Connecticut Air Line Railway Company, a corporation of Connecticut duly organized under the general railroad law in 1881, for the consideration of $626.32 then received in payment, by a warranty deed, in which he described it as “lying and being in the town of Stratford, and on each side of the center line of the location of said railroad company and of the width of four (4) rods on each side of said center line, across my said lands a distance of about nine hundred and nineteen feet in length,…
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