Reynolds v. Reynolds
Supreme Court of Connecticut
IN ERROR, This was an application to the county court, by Ard Reynolds against Ezekiel Reynolds and Edmond Lockwood, for a private way.
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IN ERROR, This was an application to the county court, by Ard Reynolds against Ezekiel Reynolds and Edmond Lockwood, for a private way. The petition stated, that the petitioner owned in fee simple a tract of land in Greenwich, containing about twenty-five acres, bounded North in part by Edmond Lockwood and in part by Ezekiel Reynolds, East by Edmond Lockwood, South by Edmond Lockwood, jr., and West by Ira Lockwood; that the petitioner had no mode of getting to said land from his dwelling-house but by passing over the lands of said Edmond Lockwood and Ezekiel Reynolds, over which he had no…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, J.
The points made by the plaintiff in error will be considered in the order in which they have been presented on the argument.
1. It is claimed, first, that on the facts stated in the bill of exceptions and remonstrance, the petitioner was not entitled to the benefit of the statute providing for the laying-out of private ways. From the finding of the county court, on the remonstrance of the respondent against the report of the committee appointed to lay out the way in question, as well as from the bill of exceptions filed by him, it appears, that, before the application of the petitioner to the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Botsford v. BeersSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1836
- Towns of Winchester & Colebrook v. HinsdaleSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1837
3Cited by5 opinions
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