Lucas v. Crofoot
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to quiet and settle the title to Great Island in Greenwich Cove, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Fairfield County, Curtis, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendants other than Frederick A. Hubbard, whose mortgage interest was recognized and confirmed by the judgment.
1Opinion of the CourtHaines, J.
The reasons of appeal relate chiefly to rulings upon evidence, to finding or failing to find certain facts, and to the denial of a motion for certain changes in the finding; and they challenge the decision of the court as to the legal effect of the facts found. It is to the latter that the appellants’ brief is devoted and upon which the arguments in this court chiefly turned.
The entire evidence has been certified to this court, and a careful reading of that, and consideration of the various rulings complained of, disclose nothing vital or of a sufficiently serious character to warrant us in…
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