Capen v. Peckham
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Trespass on the case, for an injury to the plaintiff’s reversionary interest in certain premises occupied as a slaughter house by the defendant, a tenant, in the removal of sundry articles claimed to be fixtures, with a count in trover for the same articles as personal property ; brought originally to the city court of the city of Hartford, where judgment was rendered for the defendant, and thence carried by the defendant, by motion in error, to the Superior Court in…
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Trespass on the case, for an injury to the plaintiff’s reversionary interest in certain premises occupied as a slaughter house by the defendant, a tenant, in the removal of sundry articles claimed to be fixtures, with a count in trover for the same articles as personal property ; brought originally to the city court of the city of Hartford, where judgment was rendered for the defendant, and thence carried by the defendant, by motion in error, to the Superior Court in Hartford county, where the case was reserved for the advice of this court. The following bill of exceptions was allowed in the…
1Opinion of the CourtPark, J.
We do not intend to relax the rule established by repeated decisions during the last seventy years, that the whole case tried in the court below cannot be brought up for review in this court, but only the particular matter complained of in the admission or rejection of evidence, or the rulings of the court upon questions of law arising in the case. McDonald v. Fisher, Kirby, 839 ; Wadsworth v. Sanford, id., 456 ; Watson v. Watson, 10 Conn., 75 ; Picket v. Allen, id., 156 ; Lyme v. East Haddam, 14 id., 394 ; Sharp v. Curtiss, 15 id., 526 ; Shelton v. Hoadley, id., 535 ; Woolf v. Chalker, 31…
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