Bradley v. Bailey
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for entering upon land occupied by the plaintiff and destroying a crop of rye thereon; brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County.
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Action for entering upon land occupied by the plaintiff and destroying a crop of rye thereon; brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County. The complaint alleged that John B. Bailey was on the 11th day of April, 1885, a tenant for life of the land in question, and on that day leased the same for three years to the plaintiff; that the plaintiff on the 18th day of September, 1885, sowed the land with rye; that the said John B. Bailey died on the 20th of September, 1885; and that in June, 1886, the defendants, George R. Bailey and Abraham L. Bailey, wrongfully entered upon the land…
1Opinion of the CourtBeardsley, J.
This is a complaint in trespass, in which the defendants appeal from an adverse judgment in the Court of Common Pleas.
The material allegations of the complaint are that one John R. Bradley was tenant for life of a certain tract of land, of which the defendant George R. Bailey was tenant for life in remainder; that John B. Bailey, in the month of April, 1885, leased the tract to the plaintiff for the term of three years; that the plaintiff sowed, a portion of the tract with winter rye on the 18th of September, 1885; and that John B. Bailey died on the 20th of September, 1885, and that George…
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