MAZER v. CONNECTICUT LIGHT & POWER CO.


147 Conn. 235 (1960)

WALTER MAZER v. THE CONNECTICUT LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided March 1, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred M. Bingham, for the appellant (plaintiff).

G. Bradford Palmer, with whom, on the brief, was Walter F. Torrance, Jr., for the appellee (named defendant); with him also was Paul J. Driscoll, for the appellees (defendants Brown et al., executors).

BALDWIN, C. J., KING, MURPHY, MELLITZ and SHEA, JS.


KING, J.

The plaintiff and the defendant executors' testator owned adjoining farms in Lyme. During the decedent's lifetime, he had arranged with the named defendant to change the location of an electric transmission line crossing his farm. Holes had been dug for some time before April 15, 1957, but the poles had not been set in place. In the late afternoon of that day, the plaintiff noticed that one of his lambs was missing. He claimed, and the court found, that it...

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