Carney v. Hennessey
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action in the nature of trespass qu. cl. fr., brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Hubbard, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $1 damages, and appeal by the defendants for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. The plaintiff filed a bill of exceptions for alleged errors of the court in excluding certain evidence and in limiting the plaintiff’s costs to one dollar.
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Action in the nature of trespass qu. cl. fr., brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Hubbard, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $1 damages, and appeal by the defendants for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. The plaintiff filed a bill of exceptions for alleged errors of the court in excluding certain evidence and in limiting the plaintiff’s costs to one dollar. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtTorrance, J.
The plaintiff and defendants are adjoining proprietors of land in New Haven fronting westerly on State Street and running east to Olive Street. The plaintiff owns the north lot and the defendants the south lot. The dispute between them relates to the question whether the boundary line, between said lots, runs along the outside face of the southerly wall of the brick building on plaintiff’s land, as claimed by the defendants, or whether it runs about a foot and a half, more or less, southerly of the face of said wall, as claimed by the plaintiff. Both lots were owned as one by Joseph Fairchild…
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