Beach v. Whittlesey
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover the possession of land, and damages, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the court, Studley, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings and findings of the. court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The parties to this suit owned adjoining lots, and were in controversy as to the position of the dividing line, by which the plaintiff’s lot was bounded on the west. It is admitted in the pleadings that the plaintiff accepted, in settlement of this controversy, a conveyance from the defendant of a strip of land hounded north on Prospect Street 12 feet, east on her land 142 feet, south on his land 12 feet, and west on his land 142 feet. How far east this strip extended was thus left dependent on the position of the true westerly boundary of the plaintiff’s land, and a new controversy soon…
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