Lyme Land Conservation Trust, Inc. v. Platner

LYME LAND CONSERVATION TRUST, INC. v. BEVERLY PLATNER ET AL. (SC 20071) Robinson, C. J., and Palmer, McDonald, Mullins, Kahn and Ecker, Js. Syllabus Pursuant to statute (§ 51-183c), a judge who has tried a case without a jury in which a new trial is granted, or in which the judgment is reversed by the Supreme Court, may not again try the case. The defendant property owner appealed from the trial court’s judgment rendered following a hearing in damages that was held on remand in connection with the plaintiff conservation trust’s claim that the defen- dant had wilfully violated a conservation…