Purdy v. Watts
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit for the cancellation of a deed which was alleged to have been obtained by the defendant through fraud and undue influence from the plaintiff’s intestate, and also for damages, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County where the equitable issues were, upon an order of court, Williams, J., tried to the court, Shumway, J., and judgment rendered for the defendant, after which the plaintiff was nonsuited in a trial of the legal issues to the jury before Gager, J.,…
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Suit for the cancellation of a deed which was alleged to have been obtained by the defendant through fraud and undue influence from the plaintiff’s intestate, and also for damages, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County where the equitable issues were, upon an order of court, Williams, J., tried to the court, Shumway, J., and judgment rendered for the defendant, after which the plaintiff was nonsuited in a trial of the legal issues to the jury before Gager, J., and from these judgments the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
This ease was before us on appeal from a former judgment, and a new trial was granted. 88 Conn. 214, 90 Atl. 936. After the case was remanded, the Superior Court permitted the defendant to file a motion that the plaintiff be required to state in separate counts his separate causes of action, granted the motion, and afterward ordered that the issues adapted to the claims for equitable relief should be tried to the court and tried first. These rulings are assigned for error in the plaintiff’s appeal, and are the only ones which he pursues in his brief and argument.
We think that there was no…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Meriden Savings Bank v. McCormackSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1906
- Bristol v. PitchardSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1908
- Purdy v. WattsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1914
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