Town of Goshen v. Carl N. Casagrande

The defendant, landowner Carl N. Casagrande, appeals an order from the Superior Court ( Tucker , J.) granting a motion for summary judgment filed by the plaintiff, the Town of Goshen. The issue before the trial court was whether a section of road abutting Casagrande's property is an unmaintained town road, or whether, as Casagrande contends, it is private property because the residents of Goshen voted at a town meeting in 1891 to discontinue the road. After reviewing the record of the 1891 town meeting, including the language of the warrant article, the trial court concluded that the town had…