Legal Opinion
Lyon v. Wilcox
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided January 10, 1923PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCurtis, J.
The complaint asks, by way of equitable relief, for the partition among the cotenants of an island in Long Island Sound opposite the town of Greenwich, in quantity about eighteen acres, known as Great Captain’s Island, or, if partition cannot be had without material injury to the rights of cotenants, then a sale of the premises and a division of the proceeds between the parties, according to their rights.
Certain cotenants pleaded in defense, in their answer, that the interest in the Island of certain parties came to them by devise or descent from individuals whose estates had never been…
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