Brett v. Cooney
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action .for an injunction and a judgment declaring certain deeds to be void and ordering a reconveyance; brought to the Superior Court for New Haven County and tried to the court, Case, J. Judgment for plaintiffs and appeal by defendants.
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Action .for an injunction and a judgment declaring certain deeds to be void and ordering a reconveyance; brought to the Superior Court for New Haven County and tried to the court, Case, J. Judgment for plaintiffs and appeal by defendants. The following facts were specially found: The plaintiffs owned summer residences on Beach Street, which skirts the shore of Long Island Sound near Savin Rock in West Haven, and on a part of the street which was largely given over to such residences. The residents in the neighborhood were well known to each other. It was well understood and recognized by them…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The plaintiffs in each of the cases .at bar (which will be treated as one in this opinion), conveyed a house to Martin, in pursuance of what they supposed to be a contract between them and his law partner, Coyle, for its sale to Coyle for his personal residence. Coyle, in fact, had made no such contract; but they had been induced to believe that he had, and that a conveyance to Martin would serve to execute it, by the fraudulent misrepresentations of the defendants, who had combined to get, in this way, the title in Martin, in order that he might convey, not to Coyle, but to Mrs. Cooney.
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