Lawrence v. Shipman
Supreme Court of Connecticut
The following opinion was given by Hon. O. S. Seymour, Judge of the Supreme Court, in two cases in the Superior Court in Hartford County, submitted to him as an arbitrator, under a rule of court, by William T. Lawrence, plaintiff in the one, and Peter Lux, plaintiff in the other, and Nathaniel Shipman and George M. Bartholomew, defendants in both cases, the defendants being trustees.
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The following opinion was given by Hon. O. S. Seymour, Judge of the Supreme Court, in two cases in the Superior Court in Hartford County, submitted to him as an arbitrator, under a rule of court, by William T. Lawrence, plaintiff in the one, and Peter Lux, plaintiff in the other, and Nathaniel Shipman and George M. Bartholomew, defendants in both cases, the defendants being trustees. The questions of law considered and decided make the opinion one of interest to the profession and the public. The facts are sufficiently stated by the judge.
1Opinion of the Court
judge Seymour’s opinion.
These two cases have been submitted to me as arbitrator tinder a rule of court. The two are substantially alike. The plaintiffs were respectively tenants of the defendants, occu*587pying a brick building called the Russ Place, which the defendants owned as trustees in fee, situate on the west side of Main street,'in the city of Hartford. The plaintiffs aver that while they were thus occupying the -tenement on the 13th day of July, 1869, and for several days next previous thereto, the defendants carelessly and negligently excavated and removed,' and caused to be excavated…
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