Goodwin v. Hamersley
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to restrain the defendant from maintaining an addition to his building in a yard claimed to be owned by the parties in common, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the court, George W. Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, C. J.
On the 11th day of October, 1828, Bur-rage B. Dimock and Frederick Marsh were the owners of a tract of land in the city of Hartford at the corner of State and Main streets, fronting southerly on State street and westerly on Main street. On that day they conveyed the easternmost part of this tract to Edward P. Cooke ; that is to say, a piece fronting southerly on State street about twenty feet and fifty feet deep, in fee simple absolute. This piece of land is now Ho. 10 State street. And by the same deed another piece of land directly in the rear, i. e., northerly of the one so granted, was…
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