Carney v. Wilkinson
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Writ of error brought to the Supreme Court of Errors at its January Term, 1896, at New Haven, to review a judgment of the Superior Court (Ralph Wheeler, J.') rendered in favor of the defendant in error, upon his application to restore and establish, lost and uncertain bounds between the lands of the parties. The action in the Superior Court was brought under § 2975 of the General Statutes. A committee appointed by the court made a report fixing and establishing a lost bound.
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Writ of error brought to the Supreme Court of Errors at its January Term, 1896, at New Haven, to review a judgment of the Superior Court (Ralph Wheeler, J.') rendered in favor of the defendant in error, upon his application to restore and establish, lost and uncertain bounds between the lands of the parties. The action in the Superior Court was brought under § 2975 of the General Statutes. A committee appointed by the court made a report fixing and establishing a lost bound. The defendant in the action remonstrated against the acceptance of the report. The court sustained a demurrer to the…
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
Some questions of interest, and not free from doubt, involving the meaning and effect of the statute under which the original complaint was brought, were discussed in argument; they arise, however, on this writ of error, with such limitations, that any consideration of their merits which does not extend beyond the issue directly involved, must be unsatisfactory; and as there is a fatal error apparent on the face of the record, we confine the decision to that error.
The statute (§ 2975 of the General Statutes) provides for an appointment by the court to which a complaint for the establishment…
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