Post v. Williams
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Petition to the superior court for the establishment of lost boundaries between the land of the petitioner and that of Deborah Williams, one of the respondents.
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Petition to the superior court for the establishment of lost boundaries between the land of the petitioner and that of Deborah Williams, one of the respondents. The committee appointed by the court to hear the case and establish the bounds made the following report:— “ That the said Russell H. Post owns the tract of land described in said petition as therein alleged, and that the said Deborah Williams owns the tract of land described in said petition as therein alleged ; and that the bounds of said lands and the boundary line between them have become obscure and lost, and that the petitioner…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCurdy, J.
The respondents ask that the report of the. committee be rejected on two grounds. 1st. That the oath taken by them was the ordinary one for committees in chancery and not the particular one prescribed by statute for this case. The proceeding is a suit in chancery, and the common oath is in substance that the committee will find the facts and report them to the court. The special oath by the act of 1859 requires the committee to find the facts and “ ascertain and establish the bounds,” and report the same to the court. The meaning is that they shall find and fix the true places of the bounds…
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