Rowe v. Smith
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Trespass for entering upon grounds in the possession of the plaintiff as an oyster bed and taking and carrying away oysters; brought, by appeal from a justice of the peace, to the Court of Compon Pleas of New Haven county, and in that court tried to the jury before Torrance, J. Verdict for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendants. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
This case has previously been before this court. Rowe v. Smith, 48 Conn. R., 444. It was then said as follows: “In 1785 East Haven was carved from New Haven and incorporated as a town; it borders upon Bran-ford eastwardly, upon the Sound southwardly, and upon the bay and harbor of New Haven and East River westwardly. In 1803 the legislature defined the separating line of territorial proprietorship between New Haven and East Haven as passing from the mouth of East River, along the middle of the channel of the bay or harbor, to an intersection with the line drawn from the shore of one town to…
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