Legal Opinion
Favorite v. Miller
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided December 12, 1978PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBogdanski, J.
On July 9,1776, a band of patriots, hearing news of the Declaration of Independence, toppled the equestrian statue of King George III, which was located in Bowling Green Park in lower Manhattan, New York. The statue, of gilded lead, was then hacked apart and the pieces ferried over Long Island Sound and loaded onto wagons at Nor-walk, Connecticut, to be hauled some fifty miles northward to Oliver Wolcott’s bullet-molding foundry in Litchfield, there to be cast into bullets. On the journey to Litchfield, the wagoners halted at Wilton, Connecticut, and while the patriots were imbibing, the…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- Jackson v. SteinbergOregon Supreme Court · 1948
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3Cited by76 opinions
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- Maloney v. PacSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1981
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