Carney v. Hennessey
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action in the nature of trespass qu. el. fr., brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Bishop, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendants.
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Action in the nature of trespass qu. el. fr., brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Bishop, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendants. In 1873 Joseph Fairchild was the owner of a triangular piece of land bounded northerly by the junction of State and Olive streets about 25 feet; westerly by State Street about 160 feet; easterly by Olive Street and land of the railroad company about 188 feet, i. e., by Olive Street about 145 feet, and by the railroad land about 43 feet (the railroad line running about parallel with…
1Opinion of the Court
Hamersley, J. The acts of trespass complained of were done on a piece of land lymg between a northerly line including the face of the plaintiff’s building, and a southerly line including the face of the projection of the defendant’s building, the distance between the face of the projection and the face of the plaintiff’s building being about four feet. The plaintiff bases her claim of ownership of this land, or that portion of it on which the alleged trespass may have been committed, upon the deed of Joseph Fairchild to his daughter, Mrs. Easton, of October 16th, 1874. Fairchild owned at the
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