CONNECTICUT R EPORTS: BEING R EPORTS OF CASES A RGUED AND DETERMINED INHE T SUPREME C OURT OF ERRORS OFHE T STATEF O CONNECTICUT. VOL. L IV. BY J OHN HOOKER. PUBLISHED F OR THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT, BY BAN KS & BR OTHERS, 144 NASSAUSTREET, NEW YORK. 1887. U(7// Entered a ccording to Act of Congress, in the year 1886, for the State of Connecticut, By C HARLES A. RUSSELL, SECRETARY OF THE STATE, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. * PREFATORY N OTE. In t he present volume 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 head-note the dates of the argument and decision. It is proposed to pur sue the same course in the later volumes. The cause of the absence of any judge will not be noted, and where a judge of the Superior Court is called in to sit in a case his name will be 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 which will be prefixed to the volume. J U D G E S OFHE T R.SU P E. M. E. C. OU ET OF E R F O IRS - i I DURING THE TIME OF THE WITHIN DECISIONS. HON. J OHN DUANE PARK, CHIEF JUSTICE. HON. ELISHA CARPENTER. HoN. DWIGHT WHITEFIELD PARDEE. HON. DWIGHT LOOMIS. HON. MILES TOBEY GRANGER. JUDGESF O THE SUPERIOR COURT, HoN, E DWARD I. SANFORD. HON. SIDNEY B. BEARDSLEY. HON. CHARLES B. ANDREWs. HON. HENRY STODDARD. HON. DAVID TORRANCE. HON. JAMES PHELPs. TABLEF O THE CASES REPORTED. - P AGE Aborn v. Rathbone . • •• •• . 444 Appeal from Commissioners, City Bank's. • . 269 Appeal from Commissioners, Tolles's . © • . 521 Appeal from Probate, Comstock’s . • o . 116 6% 66 “ Dickinson's • •• . 224 6% 4 % “ Rockwell's . • • . 119 66 4 % “ Saunders's • • • . 108 6% 4 % “ Wilcox’s •• • . 320 Ascher, S tate v. •• • ... • • • . 299 Babcock P rinting Press Manfg Co., Cottrell v. 122 Baldwin, Blake v. • o • • • Barnes, Bristol Manfg. Co. v. 53 Bassermon, State v. • • • •• . 88 Bates, Phelps v. • •• •• • • 11 Beardsley, Morris v. •• • • • . 338 Bedford, Wheeler v. • • • •• . 244 Bishop v. Bishop . • • • • • • . 232 Black v. O'Hara •• e © e o • 17 Blake v . Baldwin . • e • • • ... 5 Bosworth, State v. • • o •• • 1 Bradley, Halfway River School Dist. v. •• . 74 Bridgeport Knife Co., Schietenger v. • • • 64 Bridgewater ( Town of) v. Town of Roxbury, . 213 Bristol Manfg. Co. v. Barnes . • © e e 53 Bronson v. Borough of Wallingford . • • . 513 Brown v. Poland . e •• • • . 313 Butterfield v. McNamara . • • * • . 94 Camp. v Crocker's Administrator, . • • © 21 Canaan (Town of), Town of New Hartford v. 39 Canton (Town of) v. Town of Simsbury . •• 86 Vi C ASES REPORTED. PAGE . .277 C atlin, Woodruff v. • - - - - - Chamberlain v. Conn. Central R. R. Co. 472 436 Champion, T own of Hartford v. - • • . City Bank's Appeal from Commissioners, . • . 269 511 Coe v. James • - - - . Comstock's A ppeal from Probate . - • . 116 . 24 Coney, Winchell v. • - - - - Conn. Central R. R. Co., Chamberlain v. • . 472 Conn. Spiritualist Camp-meeting Asso. v. Town of . 152 East Lyme - - • • • - - 195 Continental Life Ins. Co., Holman v. • - . 80 Cooley v. Gillan . • - - - • - Cotting v. N. York & N. Eng. R. R. Co. • . 156 Cottrell v. Babcock Printing Press Manfg Co. 122 Credit Company v. Howe Machine Co. • . 357 21 Crocker's A dministrator, Camp v. - • - . 253 Damon v. Denny . • • • - • 574 Danbury (Borough of), Gray v. • • - . 253 Denny, Damon v. • - • - . Dexter v . McCready . • ‘. - - • . 171 Dickinson's Appeal from Probate . - - . 224 Donaghue v. Gaffy . - - - . 257 East L yme (Town of), Conn. Spiritualist Camp 152 meeting Asso. v. • • - • • East L yme (Town of), Town of Haddam v. 34 Eighteenth S chool Dist., Sixteenth School Dist. v. 50 Fields v . Hartford & Wethersfield Horse R. R. Co. 9 84 Frost, Morse v. • • • • - • • . 257 Gaffy, D onaghue v. - • • Garvie v. City of Hartford. • • • • . 440 . 80 Gillan, Cooley v. • • • - • • . 257 Graham, Woodruff v. • • • • • Gray v. Borough of Danbury • - • • . 574 Grissell v. Housatonic R. R. Co. - - • 44 Gushee v. Union Knife Co. - - • • ... 101 CASES R EPORTED. - Wii PAGE Haddam ( Town of) v. Town of East Lyme . e 34 Hakes, Tobey v. • • •• • o . 274 Halfway River School Dist. v. Bradley . • e 74 Hamden (Town of) v. Merwin, . • . 418 Hamilton v. Lamphear . • •• • . 237 Hartford (City of), Garvie v. • e. 440 Hartford (Town of) v. Champion . 436 Hartford Ins. Co., Palmer v. • • • • . 488 Hartford & Wethersfield Horse R. R. Co., Fields v. 9 Holman v . Continental Life Ins. Co. • • . 195 Housatonic R. R. Co., Grissell v. e • . 447 Howe Machine Co., Credit Co. v. • e • . 357 Howe Machine Co, Webster v. e e • . 394 Hoyt v. Ketcham . • • e • • • . 60 James, Coe v. • • e e • • . 511 Johnson, M ead v. © e • e • • . .317 Ketcham, Hoyt v. • e • e • • 60 Lamphear, Hamilton v. e • © e • . 237 Maney, S tate v. e • • • e • . 178 McCready, Dexter v. • e • e • . 171 McFarland v . Sikes . •• • e • . 250 McNamara, Butterfield v. • • e . 94 Mead v. Johnson . •• • •• • . .317 Merwin, Page v. • • • ••• . 426 Merwin, Town of Hamden v. Q, • • • . 418 Millard v . Webster . • e • • • . 415 Morris v. Beardsley . .338 Morse v. Frost . •• e © e • • 84 New H artford (Town of) v. Town of Canaan . 39 Newington (Town of), Wetherell v. • • • 67 New York & New England R. R. Co., Cotting v. 156 Nomer, Nothe v. e * e e • • . 326 Nothe v . Nomer . o e e ••• . 326 viii C ASES REPORTED. PAGE O'Hara, B lack v. 17 .Page v Merwin . • • • • - . 4 26 Palmer v. Hartford Ins. Co. • • 488 Parsons, Sand Blast File Sharpening Co. v. 3 10 Phelps v. Bates • © • - - 11 Poland, Brown v. 3 13 Rathbone, A born v. • 444 Rhodes, Singer Manfg Co. v. 4 8 119 Rockwell's Appeal from Probate - - Roxbury (Town of), Town of Bridgewater v. 213 Sand B last File Sharpening Co. v. Parsons . 3 10 Saunders's Appeal from Probate . 108 Schietenger v. Bridgeport Knife Co. 6 4 Sherwood v. Whiting 330 Sikes, McFarland v. 2 50 Simpson, W m. Rogers Manfg Co. v. • • 527 Simsbury ( Town of), Town of Canton v. 8 6 Singer Manfg Co. v. Rhodes 48 Sixteenth S chool Dist. v. Eighteenth School Dist. 50 Smith. v City of Waterbury . • 174 Stafford Savings Bank v. Underwood . State v. Ascher - •• • - - 299 State v. Basserman •• • • - 8 8 .State v Bosworth State v. Maney . • • • • . 1 78 Storrs Agricultural School v. Whitney . 342 Tobey v . Hakes . • • • - . 2 74 Tolles's Appeal from Commissioners. • • 521 Underwood, S tafford Savings Bank v. 101 Union Knife Co., Gushee v. - Wallingford ( Borough of), Bronson v. • . 5 13 Warner v. Willard . •. • * - • 470 CASES R EPORTED. ix PACE Waterbury ( City of), Smith v. 1 74 Webster v. Howe Machine Co.. 394 Webster, Millard v. •• . 4 15 Wetherell v. Town of Newington. 67 Wheeler v. Bedford . • . 2 44 Whiting, Sherwood v. • - - . 330 Whitney, Storrs Agricultural School v. 342 Wilcox's Appeal from Probate. 320 Willard, Warner v. • • • . 4 70 William Rogers Mfg. Co. v. Simpson 527 Winchell v. Coney • •• 2 4 Woodruff v. Catlin . 2 77 Woodruff v. Graham . 277 VOL. L IV-B CASES ARGUEDND A DETERMINED INHE T SUPREME C OURT OF ERRORS OFHE T STATEF O CONNECTICUT. THE S TATE vs. LOREN BOSWORTH. Hartford D istrict, Jan. T., 1886. PARK, C. J., CARPENTER, PARDEE, LOOMIS AND GRANGER, Js. All o ffenses involving continuous action and which may be continued from day to day, may be charged as committed from one date to another. In a c omplaint for cruelty to animals, one count charged the defendant with overworking certain oxen from the first to the fourteenth day of a certain month, and another with neglecting to provide them with proper food and shelter for the same time. Held that each count charged but a single offense, and properly charged it as a continuing One. The o verworking and the neglect to properly feed and shelter cattle, may be charged as one offense. [Argued J anuary 6th—decided January 22d, 1886.] COMPLAINT b y a prosecuting officer of the Connecticut Humane Society for cruelty to animals, upon which the defendant was bound over by a justice of the peace to the Superior Court in Tolland County. In that court the de fendant demurred to the complaint; the demurrer was overruled, and the case tried to the jury before Andrews, J. Verdict guilty and appeal by the defendant. The case is fully stated in the opinion. VOL. L IV-1 2 F EBRUARY, 1886. Stafford S avings Bank v. Underwood. J. M. Hall and W. Bennett, for the appellant. B. H. Bill and C. Phelps, for the State. CARPENTER, J . The only question presented by this record which we can notice is that which arises on the demurrer. The only ground of demurrer is that several offenses are alleged in each count. The first count charges the defendant with cruelly over working certain oxen from the first to the fourteenth day of January, 1885. The second count charges him with neg lecting to provide them during the same period with proper food, drink and protection. The third charges that during the same period he deprived them of proper sustenance. Properly construed there is but one offense in each count. Perhaps it may be said that there is but one offense charged in all the counts.