Hamlin v. City of Norwich
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Bill in equity, praying for an injunction against the removal, as an encroachment upon a city street, of a wall in front of the petitioner’s premises; brought to the Superior Court in New London county.
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Bill in equity, praying for an injunction against the removal, as an encroachment upon a city street, of a wall in front of the petitioner’s premises; brought to the Superior Court in New London county. The court found the following facts: The lot of the petitioner, from the front of which the respondents claimed the right to remove the wall, was in the year 1851 a part of a tract of land lying within the city of Norwich, known as the Roatli estate, and the undivided property of the heirs of Roswell Roatli. On the 21st of June, 1851, the heir's submitted the matter of its partition and…
1Opinion of the CourtSeymour, J.
The plaintiff avers in his bill that he is the owner of certain premises in the city of Norwich, and that along the northeasterly side of the same there is a private street; that he has been at great expense in enclosing the unincumbered portion of his premises from said private street, and that the defendants threaten to enter upon the enclosed portion and tear down the bank wall which he has erected; praying for an injunction.
The matter which has been contested before us is, whether that which the plaintiff alledges to be a private street is such, or is, as the defendants claim it to be, a…
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