Dwyer v. Hamre

In this action the plaintiffs seek relief on the ground of a failure of consideration upon their purchase from the defendant on October 19th, 1931, of a leasehold interest in a lot in Branford, which is a part of land owned in fee by the First Ecclesiastical Society of Branford, the title of which was fully discussed in our opinion in Hamre v. Etzel & Sons, Inc., 120 Conn. 129, 131, 179 Atl. 647. The following undisputed facts appear in the finding: For a long time prior to October 24th, 1914, the Ecclesiastical Society was the owner in fee of land in Branford which it had demised to Samuel…