Ceffarelli v. Landino
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover for work and labor and materials furnished in rebuilding the defendant’s foundation wall and in shoring up his building adjoining the land upon which the plaintiff, a mason and contractor, was excavating preparatory to erecting a building for a third person, brought to and reserved by the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County, Wolfe, J., upon an agreed statement of facts, for the advice of this court.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The statement of facts shows that the defendant owns land on Hill Street in the city of New Haven, upon which there now is, and for many years prior to April, 1906, had been, a frame house, the southerly' side of which, and of its underpinning wall, is twenty-two inches northerly of the southerly line of his land. The twenty-two inch strip, between the house and the southerly line of his lot was covered by an ordinary concrete walk. The lot of land on Hill Street south of the defendant’s lot was owned by one Antonio Pepe. In April, 1906, the plaintiff, who is a contractor and builder, entered…
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