Northeast Generation Co. v. Marcello

Opinion

PETERS, J.

This case concerns the propriety of placing an unauthorized dock on a lake that an electricity generating company uses as a storage reservoir for the production of electric power. The issue is whether General Statutes § 16-237 precludes the unauthorized user *755from invoking the law of adverse possession to justify continued use of the dock. The statute provides in relevant part that “[n]o length of possession, user or occupancy of any buildings or land . . . adverse to any . . . right thereto belonging to . . . [an] electric light or power corporation, and used or acquired for…