Lindsay v. Gunning
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to foreclose a builders’ lien; brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and heard before Thayer, J. The court made the following finding of facts :— During the year 1887 the defendants Thomas B. Gunning, Jr., and Christine L. Gunning, then husband and wife, purchased from different owners a number of tracts of land situated in the town of Wilton, with the intention of throwing them all into one large farm to be owned and operated by them jointly as a stock and…
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Suit to foreclose a builders’ lien; brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and heard before Thayer, J. The court made the following finding of facts :— During the year 1887 the defendants Thomas B. Gunning, Jr., and Christine L. Gunning, then husband and wife, purchased from different owners a number of tracts of land situated in the town of Wilton, with the intention of throwing them all into one large farm to be owned and operated by them jointly as a stock and dairy farm. The premises thus purchased included the C. Marvin farm, the T. K. Hub-bell farm, a portion of the J. W.…
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
This is a suit to foreclose a mechanics’ lien. The buildings, in respect to which the lien is claimed, are a creamery, a silo, a silo barn, and a cow stable. The land claimed to be subject to the lien is a tract containing three hundred and fifty acres. No question arises in respect to the notices. The certificate includes all the contiguous land owned by the proprietors. The Superior Court held that the lien could not include all the land, and further held that the certificate was void, inasmuch as it did not contain an accurate description of the land which was or which might have been…
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