1. On what grounds did the trial court hold for the plaintiff?
2. Why did the Supreme Court of Connecticut disagree with the lower court’s reasoning?

Bogdanski, Associate Justice
On July 9, 1776, a band of patriots, hearing news of the Declaration of Independence, toppled the equestrian statue of King George III, which was located in Bowling Green Park in lower Manhattan, New York. The statue, of gilded lead, was then hacked apart and the pieces ferried over Long Island Sound and loaded onto wagons at Norwalk, Connecticut, to be hauled some fifty miles northward to Oliver Wolcott’s bullet molding foundry in Litchfield, there to be cast into bullets. On the journey to Litchfield, the Wagoner’s halted at Wilton, Connecticut, and while the patriots were imbibing, the loyalists managed to steal back pieces of the statue. The wagonload of the pieces lifted by the Tories was scattered about in the area of the Davis Swamp in Wilton and fragments of the statue have continued to turn up in that area since that time.