City of Hartford v. County of Hartford
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Ejectment; brought to the City Court of the city of Hartford. The demanded premises were a part of a building standing on State House Square in the city of Hartford, and which was originally built as a state-house and courthouse.
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Ejectment; brought to the City Court of the city of Hartford. The demanded premises were a part of a building standing on State House Square in the city of Hartford, and which was originally built as a state-house and courthouse. The case was referred to a committee by whom the following finding of facts was made:—* It does not appear, nor is it claimed, that the county of Hartford has by virtue of any recorded deed or grant a title to any part of the land in the city of Hartford, called State House Square, on which the old state-house stands. The city of Hartford derives its title to the…
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
We think it quite clear that neither the state nor the county gained any title to the land in question by possession. Neither of them claimed any title to the land, and in neither of them was the possession adverse to the rights of the town.
The town, and afterwards the city, which included doubtless a large majority of the tax payers of the town, used the first state-house for about seventy-five years, and the present building for over thirty-five years, without objection, although both buildings were erected mainly by the state and county. It may fairly be inferred that the town, in…
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