PUBLISHED FOR THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT,

By

BANKS & BROTHERS,
144 NASSAU STREET, New YORK.

1888.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1888, for the State of

Connecticut,
By LEVERETT M. HUBBARD, Secretary of the State,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

29, 1888

PREFATORY NOTE.

The cases are printed in the order in which the opinions were filed without reference to the terms of the court. The date at the head of each page is that of the filing of the opinion. To each case is prefixed a memorandum of the county or district, of the term, and of the judges sitting, and at the foot of the bead-note the dates of the argument and decision. The cause of the absence of any judge is not noted, and where a judge of the Superior Court is called in to sit in a case his name is given with the others without mentioning the fact that he is a judge of that court, leaving the reader to ascertain for himself by reference to the list of the judges of both courts prefixed to the volume.

The statute book referred to as the Revised Statutes or General Statutes, is the revision of 1888.

JUDGES

OF THE

SUPREME COURT OF ERRORS

DURING THE TIME OF THE WITHIX DECISIONS.

HON. JOHN D. PARK, CHIEF JUSTICE.
Hon. ELISHA CARPENTER.
Hox. DWIGHT W. PARDEE.
Hon. DWIGHT LOOMIS.
Hon. MILES GRANGER. ( )
Hon. SIDNEY B. BEARDSLEY. (*)

(1) Resigned March 1, 1887.

(2) Elected at the January session of the General Assembly in 1887 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Granger.

JUDGES OF THE SUPERIOR COURT.

Hon. EDWARD I. SANFORD.
Hox. SIDNEY B. BEARDSLEY.
Hox. CHARLES B. ANDREWS.
Hon. HENRY STODDARD. (*)
Hox. DAVID TORRANCE.
Hox. JAMES PHELPS.

Hon. AUGUSTUS H. FENN. 6)
(3) See note 2 above.
(4) Resigned January 1, 1888.

(5) Elected by the General Assembly at its January session, 1887, to fill the vacancy made by the election of Judge Beardsley to the Supreme Court.

TABLE OF THE CASES REPORTED.

66

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Etna Bank v. Hollister
Allyn, Hayden v.
Anthony v. Anthony
Appeal from Commissioners, Comstock's

Gunn's.

Shoe & Leather Bank's
Appeal from Probate, Dickerson's

Goodsell's
Lockwood's
O'Neil's

PAGE 188 280 256 211 119 169 223 171 157 109

66

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Bailey, Wells v.
Baldwin, Beecher v.
Barber, Lillibridge v.
Bartram v. City of Bridgeport
Beecher v. Baldwin
Bell v. Towner .
Bennett v. Gibbons
Benton, Miller v.
Blackmer, Kinney v.
Blakeslee v. H. Tyler
Blakeslee v. M. Tyler

v. Cowen
Breen, Hinckley v. .
Bridgeport (City of), Bartram v.
Bridgeport Hydraulic Co., Citizens' Water Co. v.
Bridgeport (Town of), Turney v.
Brigham v. Ross
Buell, Town of Clinton v.

292 119 366 122 419 364 450 529 261 387 397 152 119 122

1 112 373 263

Brewster

.

Citizens' Water Co. v. Bridgeport Hydraulic Co.
Chadeayne v. Robinson
Chase v. Tuttle.

1 3-15 455

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