Dubuque v. Coman
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action in the nature of trespass quare clausum fregit, brought before a justice of the peace, who gave the plaintiff judgment for $1.00 damages. An appeal was taken to the Superior Court for Windham County, by which, upon a trial to the court, Ralph Wheeler, •/., judgment was rendered in the plaintiff’s favor for the same sum.
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Action in the nature of trespass quare clausum fregit, brought before a justice of the peace, who gave the plaintiff judgment for $1.00 damages. An appeal was taken to the Superior Court for Windham County, by which, upon a trial to the court, Ralph Wheeler, •/., judgment was rendered in the plaintiff’s favor for the same sum. The defendant appealed to this court, alleging errors in sundry rulings upon the trial, and also in the findings of fact, and in the refusal to find certain facts as claimed by him.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The judgment appealed from was one rendered for one dollar, damages, in an action for the disturbance of the plaintiff’s possession of a small pasture lot, containing about two acres, and worth from $60 te $70.
The locus in quo was originally part of a farm of oyer 170 acres belonging to Hale Jacobs. He conveyed it, together with another part of the farm, to Salem Jacobs, in 1862. In 1874, the heirs of Hale Jacobs, among whom was Salem Jacobs, conveyed to the defendant another part of the farm, described as containing 83f acres, and particularly bounded by courses, distances, and monuments.…
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