Robinson v. Clapp
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit for an injunction to restrain the defendant, an adjoining proprietor, from injuring a boundary line tree and well of water, and from interfering with the free access of light and air to the rooms of the plaintiff’s dwelling-house; brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the court, Gable, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Suit for an injunction to restrain the defendant, an adjoining proprietor, from injuring a boundary line tree and well of water, and from interfering with the free access of light and air to the rooms of the plaintiff’s dwelling-house; brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the court, Gable, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion. I. The defendant under his quitclaim deed stands in the same position as if he had received a…
1Opinion of the CourtFenn, J.
Upon the complaint of the plaintiff, claiming an injunction to restrain the defendant from doing certain acts on the defendant’s own land, adjacent to land of the plaintiff, the Court of Common Pleas for New Haven County found the following facts:—
On September 21st, 1883, one William Waite was, and for a long time had been, the owner in fee of certain premises on the northerly side of Bradley street in the city of New Haven, *37461 feet front on said street, and 98 feet deep. A dwelling-house stood on the westerly part of said lot. On said day, said William Waite, through a third person, conveyed…
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