Sweeney v. Landers, Frary & Clark
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to enjoin the obstruction of a passway and also for damages, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and reserved by that court, Case, J., upon an agreed statement of facts, for the advice of this court. This statement not being complete, the cause was continued until the January term, 1908, when a stipulation was filed that if the obstruction was unlawful, judgment might be rendered by the Superior Court for $1 damages and a permanent injunction granted.
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Suit to enjoin the obstruction of a passway and also for damages, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and reserved by that court, Case, J., upon an agreed statement of facts, for the advice of this court. This statement not being complete, the cause was continued until the January term, 1908, when a stipulation was filed that if the obstruction was unlawful, judgment might be rendered by the Superior Court for $1 damages and a permanent injunction granted. The estate of John Hanna owned a considerable tract of land upon East Main Street in the city of New Britain, including A.,…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
The plaintiff, by force of the deed to him from the Hanna estate, acquired (1) the fee of a tract of land adjoining East Main Street on the north and bounded on the west, for a distance not stated in the record, by land reserved by the grantor, and (2) a right of way over and across a portion of the land so reserved, to wit, a strip of land twelve feet in width extending along the whole length of said westerly boundary line. The right of way which the plaintiff thus acquired was one appurtenant to the land acquired in fee, and as such attached to each and every portion of it. So far the…
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