Delinks v. William McGowan

The plaintiffs are taxpayers and own land in the town of Old Lyme on the banks of the Blackhall River or in the immediate vicinity of the river. The defendants are the governor of the state, the state board of fisheries and game, hereinafter referred to as the board, and William and Mildred M. McGowan. The plaintiffs seek to enjoin the defendants from consummating a sale by the McGowans to the state of a tract of land, approximately three acres in area, on the easterly bank of Horse Neck Creek and the Blackhall River at their junction in Old Lyme. The trial court rendered judgment for the…