Lynch v. White
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to restrain, the defendants, their agents and employees from using a passway across the rear of the plaintiff’s land, and from maintaining or using pipes laid therein, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County where the facts as stipulated by the parties were found by the court, Curtis, J., and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, from which the defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
In 1865 John S. Benham deeded to Thomas Ransom a vacant lot of land in Bridgeport, describing it as follows: “Northerly on John Street, 150 feet, more or less; westerly on Courtland Street, 160 feet, more or less; southerly on lands of Wm. G. Line-burgh, H. F. Hatch, T. Ransom, Wm. B. Dyer, J. H. and J. N. Benham; easterly on land of Joseph A. Banks. Excepting and reserving out of the same a pent or pass-way 16 feet wide, commencing on John Street and running south across the rear of the three northernmost houses to be erected on said premises.” There was, at the time of the conveyance, no…
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