Case Name: Chapman v. Chapman
Court: Connecticut Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1772-09
Citations: 1 Root 52
Docket Number: 
Parties: Chapman v. Chapman.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 52–52

Head Matter:
NEW LONDON COUNTY,
SEPTEMBER TERM, A. D. 1772.
Chapman v. Chapman.
Where a penalty is given for continuing a nuisance per week, one o-nly may be sued for at a time.

Opinion:
Upon a writ of error it was adjudged — That in a prosecution upon the statute for the penalty of five shillings per week, for overflowing the lands of another. The penalty for one week only, may he sued for at a time; as the penalty is given for continuing the nuisance each week, and to oblige him to remove it; it doth not appear but, that, if it had beeu prosecuted for the first week, it would have produced the effect which the law intended.