Palmer v. Hartford Dredging Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for injury to the plaintiff’s oyster-ground caused by the dumping of mud thereon, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Fairfield County and heard in damages to the court, Curtis, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $637, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Action to recover damages for injury to the plaintiff’s oyster-ground caused by the dumping of mud thereon, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Fairfield County and heard in damages to the court, Curtis, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $637, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. In November, 1895, the defendant, under proper authority, was engaged in cutting a channel in Stamford harbor, and while towing one of its scows, which was loaded with mud dug from said channel, over the oyster-bed of the plaintiff, the scow…
1Opinion of the CourtTorrahce, J.
' The plaintiff had but one cause of action and should have stated that in a single count; there was not the slightest necessity for stating it in four separate counts. Craft Refrigerating Machine Co. v. Quinnipiac Brewing Co., 63 Conn. 551; Goodrich v. Stanton, 71 id. 418, 424; Brown v. Wilcox, 73 id. 100.
'The first count alleged that the plaintiff was the owner and in possession of certain described oyster-grounds in Stamford harbor, but did not allege that they had been lawfully designated by the proper authority; and mainly for failing to allege such designation the defendant demurred. We…
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