Brower v. Wakeman
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action in the nature of trespass for wilfully destroying a bath-house and its contents, alleged to be owned by the plaintiff, brought to and tried by the Court of Common Pleas in Fairfield County, Scott, ■ J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The action is one to recover damages for the removal of a bath-house and the destruction of it and its contents. The defendants justify in several ways, upon one of which the trial court rendered judgment in their favor. This justification was that the bath-house stood on a public beach owned by the town of Westport, and that the defendants, acting as selectmen and under direction of a town meeting, removed the bath-house and its contents, after the plaintiff had received notice of the intended action and after his failure or refusal to remove them.
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