Gray v. Finch
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a proceeding in forcible entry and detainer, before a county commissioner and a justice of the peace for the county of Fairfield, instituted by Curtis Finch against Elizabeth Gray, Harvey Fitch, and Sturges Northrup.
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This was a proceeding in forcible entry and detainer, before a county commissioner and a justice of the peace for the county of Fairfield, instituted by Curtis Finch against Elizabeth Gray, Harvey Fitch, and Sturges Northrup. The complaint contained three counts, which were substantially as follows, to wit: To-&c., comes-— and complains that-on the-day of-at -, with force and arms, and with a strong hand, did unlawfully and forcibly enter into, and upon, a certain tract of land, lying in said New Canaan, belonging to the complainant, containing in quantity--, bounded, and described as…
1Opinion of the CourtSanford, J.
This is a writ of error, brought by the defendants below, to obtain the reversal of a judgment, recovered against them, in a proceeding for a forcible entry and detainer.
The questions, arising on the trial of the cause, are presented by a bill of exceptions.
1. The parties were at issue upon the question of póssession; the defendants contending that Mrs. Gray was in possession, claiming title under the levy of an execution in her favor; the plaintiff claiming that Mrs. Gray had never entered at all, or, if she had, that it was in his absence, and was no interruption of his actual possession.
The…
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