Graham v. Walker
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action in the nature of trespass qu. el. fr., brought by appeal from a judgment of a justice of the peace to the Court of Common Pleas in New London County and tried the jury before Noyes, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for one cent damages, and appeal by the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The answer contained three separate defenses : a general denial; an entry in the exercise of a prescriptive right of way to and from Taftville appurtenant to a close of the defendants situated in a quarter of the town of Lisbon known as Blissville; and an entry in the exercise of a right of way to and from Taftville, belonging by immemorial local custom to all the inhabitants of Bliss-ville.
It was admitted that the land over which the way was alleged to exist was bounded by a highway, on the opposite side of which, at a distance of about half a mile, the defendants owned a house and farm,…
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