Connecticut General Statutes/Title 52/Chapter 897/Section 52-77

CGS § 52-77. Action by joint tenant or tenant in common; effect of nonjoinder.

Any joint tenant or tenant in common of land may maintain an action in his own name for any injury thereto; but the nonjoinder of the other tenants may be shown by the defendant in reduction of damages, and the plaintiff shall only recover for the damage to his interest.

Short History

(1949 Rev., S. 7798.)

Citations

In bringing and defending suits, cotenants are independent of each other. 52 C. 263.

Cited. 3 CA 550.

Cited. 6 Conn. Cir. Ct. 147.

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