Legal Opinion
Roberti v. Atwater
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided April 15, 1875PublishedCited by 6 opinions
Ejectment ; brought to the Superior Court in Now Haven County, and tried to the jury on the general issue, before Robinson, J: Verdict for the plaintiffs and motion for a new trial by the defendant. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
The distributors of the estate of Joseph Ball, deceased, in apportioning a piece of land situated in the city of New Haven, between the plaintiffs and Josiah I. M. Beach, the latter being the defendant’s grantor, used the following language in the instrument of distribution:—
“ We have set to Sarah B. Ball, widow of the deceased, as dower, an undivided fifty-five one hundred and twentieths of the dwelling house and lot, bounded westerly by State street, fifty-nine feet; northerly, by land of the heirs of John Douglass, deceased, in part, and in part by land set in this distribution to Josiah…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Benedict v. GaylordSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1836
- Nichols v. TurneySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1842
3Cited by6 opinions
- Ferris v. Hotel Pick Arms, Inc.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1959
- Carano v. MoomeyConnecticut Appellate Court · 1998
- Whitaker v. TatemSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1881
- Roberti v. AtwaterSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1876
- DeLouise v. ClarkeSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1980
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