Sears v. Hayt
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Trespass qu. cl.fr., brought to the Superior Court in Fair-field County, and tried to the jury, upon the plea of right of way, before Loomis, J. Verdict for the plaintiff, and motion for a new trial by the defendant for error in the admission of evidence.' The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
The question before the jury was, whether the defendant had acquired a right of way by prescription over the land of the plaintiff. The plaintiff’s wife inherited the land from her father, Stephen Norris. The plaintiff denied that the defendant had any right of way, and offered evidence to prove that the use by the defendant, and those under whom he claimed, had been interrupted on two occasions by the said Norris, by plowing up the entire passway claimed by the defendant, and planting corn thereon, thereby *407causing" an interruption of the use of the way by the defendant ; that on one of these…
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