Ace Equipment Sales, Inc. v. Buccino

In determining that the trial court properly rendered summary judgment in favor of the defendants, Thomas Buccino and lima Buc-cino, the majority concludes that the ownership of the subaqueous land was not a material fact. To reach that conclusion, in the absence of definitive appellate case law in Connecticut concerning recreational use of private bodies of water, the majority adopts as the law of Connecticut a doctrine known as civil law rale that has been applied by several state courts, in particular, the courts of Minnesota and Michigan. Although I agree that, given the dearth of…