Stannard v. Sperry
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit for a partition of real estate; brought to the Superior Court in Middlesex County. The court appointed a committee under the statute relating to partition, (Gen. Statutes, § 1304,) who made and reported to the court a partition of the property. The defendant remonstrated against the acceptance of the report, the plaintiff demurred to the remonstrance, and the court (.Phelps, Ji,) sustained the demurrer, accepted the report and passed a decree establishing the partition.
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Suit for a partition of real estate; brought to the Superior Court in Middlesex County. The court appointed a committee under the statute relating to partition, (Gen. Statutes, § 1304,) who made and reported to the court a partition of the property. The defendant remonstrated against the acceptance of the report, the plaintiff demurred to the remonstrance, and the court (.Phelps, Ji,) sustained the demurrer, accepted the report and passed a decree establishing the partition. The defendant appealed. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
This is a complaint by a tenant in common for partition.
In 1865 George Stannard deeded to George Stannard, Jr., the plaintiff, an undivided half of a barn-lot, so called, being parcel of his homestead; also an undesignated, an-*544located half acre at the upper barn, parcel of his homestead ; also an undivided half of each of two barns on his homestead. With the exception of these two undivided portions of his homestead, he granted the remainder to' his grandson, Charles Speny, the defendant, together with an undivided half of each of the two barns.
George Stannard, Jr., brought his complaint to…
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