MacNeill v. Brownell

The defendants, Wilmer and Mary L. Brownell, appeal from a ruling of the Superior Court {Flynn, J.), approving a report by the Master {Robert E. Hinchey, Esq.), quieting title in the plaintiff, Doris MacNeill, and permanently enjoining the defendants from entering onto, or asserting any claim in, the subject property. For the following reasons, we affirm.

This appeal involves a dispute over two parcels of land located in Danbury, one commonly referred to as “the island,” the other known as “the ridge.” In the winter of 1984, the plaintiff, self-proclaimed title holder for twenty-eight years to…