Legal Opinion
Powers v. Olson
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided January 11, 2000No. SC 16043PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
NORCOTT, J.
The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether the trial court improperly determined that the plaintiff had actual and constructive notice of the slope rights affecting his property. We conclude that the trial court improperly determined that the plaintiff, Paul D. Powers, had such notice of the slope rights affecting the property in question. We further conclude that by granting permission to the defendant, Edward Olson, Jr., to enter the plaintiffs property for purposes of exercising slope rights, the trial court improperly adjudicated rights that rightfully can be…
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