West Hartford Ecclesiastical Society v. First Baptist Church
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Petition to the Superior Court in Hartford County for the establishment of a lost boundary between the parties, under the 33d section of the act concerning lands, Gen. Statutes, p. 543. The court, (Pardee, J.,) passed a decree establishing a bound fixed and reported by a committee, and the respondents brought the record before this court by motion in error. The points decided will be sufficiently understood without a statement of the facts.
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, C. J.
This was a petition to the Superior Court for the restoration of a lost boundary. The statute upon which it was founded provides that, “whenever the boundaries of lands between two or more adjoining proprietors shall have been lost, or by time, accident or any other cause shall have become obscure and uncertain, and the adjoining proprietors cannot agree to establish the same, one or more of said ad joining proprietors may bring Ms petition in eqmty to the Su*118perior Court for the county in which such lands, or a portion of them, are situated, and such Superior Court, as a court of equity, may…
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