Munger v. Elizabeth Doolan
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to set aside, as void, judicial proceedings by virtue of which, the defendant had acquired the apparent title and possession of certain real estate, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County; facts found and judgment rendered ( Gager, J.) for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant. In 1893 the defendant brought suit against her brother, James Doolan, returnable to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven county, and recovered judgment.
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Action to set aside, as void, judicial proceedings by virtue of which, the defendant had acquired the apparent title and possession of certain real estate, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County; facts found and judgment rendered ( Gager, J.) for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant. In 1893 the defendant brought suit against her brother, James Doolan, returnable to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven county, and recovered judgment. A judgment-lien was thereupon placed upon certain real estate in Ansonia standing in said brother’s name, which had been in form attached in…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
Various questions arising out of the situation disclosed by this record have been argued before us. Prominent in the plaintiffs brief is the claim that as James Doolan had been absent from his home and unheard of for the period of thirteen years, at the time when his sister Elizabeth instituted her original suit against him, he was dead in contemplation of law, and that therefore all the proceedings in that action, and all those which followed to enforce the judgment obtained therein, were void; The prominent place in the defendant’s brief is given to an attempt to support the proposition…
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