Town of Kent v. Pratt
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to restrain the defendant from erecting and maintaining a fence within the alleged limits of a certain highway, and from commencing or pursuing any civil action against the selectmen of the plaintiff town for their removal of such a fence erected by the defendant, brought to the Superior Court in Litchfield County and tried to the court, Shumway, J.; facts found and judgment réndered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings and…
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Action to restrain the defendant from erecting and maintaining a fence within the alleged limits of a certain highway, and from commencing or pursuing any civil action against the selectmen of the plaintiff town for their removal of such a fence erected by the defendant, brought to the Superior Court in Litchfield County and tried to the court, Shumway, J.; facts found and judgment réndered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings and findings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
A highway running north and south in the town of Kent, and called the Bulls Bridge highway, intersects a highway running east and west called East and West Street. The defendant owns properly on the southeast corner of these streets. The question in dispute is whether a triangular strip of land in front of the defendant’s premises, on the east side of Bulls Bridge highway, about seventeen feet in width at East and West Street and extending southerly to a point, is or is not a part of the highway.
In 1895 the selectmen of the town, upon the written application of the defendant, undertook to…
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