Lowndes v. Wicks
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for an entry on tide-water flats and a trespass by cutting off the plaintiff’s piles, brought by appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace to the Court of Common Pleas for Fairfield County, and tried to the court, Curtis, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Action for an entry on tide-water flats and a trespass by cutting off the plaintiff’s piles, brought by appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace to the Court of Common Pleas for Fairfield County, and tried to the court, Curtis, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The following facts appeared from the finding: The plaintiff owned a wharf-lot on the easterly side of Five Mile river at Rowayton in Norwalk, west of Main street, and the defendants owned the next lot, on the south. The…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The only matter in dispute in this action is the proper division of the riparian rights appurtenant to two adjoining wharf-lots, lying on the west side of Main street in Rowayton, with a water front on Five Mile river harbor. These lots, so far as the upland is concerned, extend for a distance of about twenty feet from Main street, and.the boundary between them on this upland is the south line of Crockett avenue extended, which line crosses Main street substantially at right angles. Crockett avenue formerly was a driftway, and it would appear from the conveyances under which the defendants…
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- French v. PearceSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1831
- Morris v. BeardsleySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1887
- Rathbun v. GeerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1894
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