Legal Opinion
Franks v. Lockwood
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided March 31, 1959PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMurphy, J.
The plaintiff purchased four lots in a development in Norwalk from the defendant Lockwood on May 6, 1956. Within two weeks thereafter, the lots were stripped of topsoil and it was placed upon four other nearby lots which either were then owned by Lockwood or had been sold by him under agreements to grade them and cover them with topsoil. The actual stripping had been done by William Nagy, an employee of Nagy Brothers, Inc., excavation contractors. The latter was employed by The Donrich Corporation of Connecticut, to which we shall refer as Donrich, the building contractor for Lockwood in the…
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