Fisk v. Ley
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit for ail injunction to protect the plaintiff’s enjoyment of certain rights in and to a strip of beach near his summer residence at the seaside ; brought to the Superior Court for New Haven County and tried to the court, George, W. Wheeler, J.; judgment for plaintiff, and appeal by defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
In 1885 a five-acre tract of land situated in Pine Orchard was conveyed to “Ellis B. Baker, Trustee,” by deed bounding it north on a highway and “ south by the sea or Long Island Sound,” and describing it “ as shown on a plan deposited with the town clerk of Branford, marked ‘ Plan of 85 building lots belonging to Ellis B. Baker, Trustee, located at Pine Orchard, Branford, Conn.’ ” The plan so filed showed that the tract was a long and narrow strip of upland about 220 feet, in width, laid out into lots of nearly equal size on each side of an open space marked “ Avenue ” leading from the…
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