Welles v. Bailey
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for entering upon and cutting and removing growing wood from land claimed by tbe plaintiff; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and tried to the court, upon a defense of title in the land, before Torrance, J. The following agreement as to certain facts in the case was made by the counsel.
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Action for entering upon and cutting and removing growing wood from land claimed by tbe plaintiff; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and tried to the court, upon a defense of title in the land, before Torrance, J. The following agreement as to certain facts in the case was made by the counsel. The Warwick Patent of 1681 conveyed to Lord Saye and Sele the property embraced therein, and Connecticut colony succeeded to such territorial rights as were therein granted. The settlement of Wethersfield began in 1634, anterior to the existence of the Connecticut colony as such. Its…
1Opinion of the CourtLoomis, J.
This case involves the application, in circumstances somewhat peculiar, of the principle of accretion and reliction, growing out of changes in the bed of the Connecticut River.
About the year 1700 the Connecticut River, between the towns of Wethersfield and Glastonbury, flowed at a certain point in two channels, with an island known as Wright’s Island between them. By the year 1770 the east channel had been left by the river, which now ran wholly in the west channel. The land left by this reliction in-the east channel passed into private ownership (the history of the matter being unimportant)…
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