Brown v. Brown
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit praying that the plaintiff might be adjudged to be the owner and entitled to the possession of an undivided half interest in certain real estate, and for other equitable relief, as well as damages ; brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the court, Prentice, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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Suit praying that the plaintiff might be adjudged to be the owner and entitled to the possession of an undivided half interest in certain real estate, and for other equitable relief, as well as damages ; brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the court, Prentice, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion. I. The facts found constitute a fraud on the part of the defendant, Arthur Brown, against the plaintiff, which entitles him to…
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, C. J.
This was a complaint brought to the equity side of the Superior Court, praying that the defendants be required to convey to the plaintiff one half of all the property (or so much thereof as there was remaining) which said Arthur Brown received by deed from Eliza J. Brown on the 23d day of May, 1885. The court heard the case, made a finding of the facts and dismissed the complaint. The plaintiff appealed.
The finding shows that the plaintiff and the defendant Arthur Brown were the only children of the said Eliza J. Brown, late of Fairfield, who died intestate on the 4th day of February, 1890,…
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