Tuttle v. State
Supreme Court of Connecticut
IN ERROR. This was an information, brought to the county court, against Tuttle, for a violation of the statute to secure the city of New-Haven from damage by fire. There were two counts.
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IN ERROR. This was an information, brought to the county court, against Tuttle, for a violation of the statute to secure the city of New-Haven from damage by fire. There were two counts. The first charged the defendant with having erected a building, and the second with having erected an addition to a building already erected, each having therein a chimney, fireplace and stove; which building and addition were, in the outer walls thereof, composed entirely of wooden materials. The defendant had removed from High-street, which is within the limits specified in the statute, a wooden building,…
1Opinion of the Court
Hosmer, Ch. J.
There has been no violation of the statute, on which the prosecution is founded, unless in relation to the walls of the new building.
The information alleges, that the outer walls of the building in question, were composed of wood and wooden materials. It appears, that the new building was constructed, by erecting a light frame of wood, and then placing a wall of brick and mortar, four inches thick, around the frame, on the outside of it, with piers of brick and mortar strengthening the wall; and also, by inlaying brick, in the studs and braces of the frame.
The frame is part of…
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