Martin v. South Norwalk Savings Bank
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to determine and quiet the title to certain real estate, brought to the District Court of Waterbury where the defendant filed a plea to the jurisdiction to which the plaintiff demurred; the court, Cowell, J., overruled the demurrer and sustained the plea, and the plaintiff appealed for alleged error in this ruling of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
The plaintiff, a resident of Waterbury, alleges in his complaint that he is the owner of certain land in South Norwalk, and that the defendant claims an interest in a portion thereof, and asks for a judgment clearing up all doubts about the title, a judgment establishing the plaintiff’s title free from the claims of the defendant, and for $500 damages.
The defendant pleaded to the jurisdiction, alleging that the action was one in which the title to land was to be tried and determined, and that the land was not within the territorial limits of the District Court of. Waterbury; but was situated…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Curtiss v. AtwoodSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1883
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