Goodwin v. Bragaw
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to restrain the defendant from maintaining; occupying and using a structure erected by him above and across a gangway alleged to be owned in fee by the plaintiff, and for damages, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Hartford County, Curtis, J.; facts found and judgment rendered.for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant. Error in part.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The complaint alleges that the plaintiff is the owner of the fee of a gangway and of two pieces of land abutting thereon, and as appurtenant to said land has. the easement therein-created by the deeds establishing the gangway; and that the defendant is the owner of two pieces of land abutting on opposite sides of this gangway in which he has a mere right of passage, and over which he is maintaining a structure connecting the buildings upon his said two pieces, for the removal of which structure a mandatory injunction is prayed for.
The defendant denies the plaintiff’s title and easement, and…
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