Lehmaier v. Wadsworth

The named defendant, since September, 1924, has been the owner of a tract of land situated on the westerly side of West Rocks Road in Norwalk, comprising in the whole about seventy acres, of which forty acres have been used for the purposes here in question. This property was previously owned by Olaf Christianson, who commenced to develop it for the sale of home sites, caused to be made a map showing proposed streets and building lots, and sold two such lots. Wadsworth purchased the remaining land on an acreage basis. Soon afterward the forty-acre portion was used by or under him as a field…