The Connecticut Gore region was a strip of land on New York's western border with Pennsylvania.

Connecticut claimed jurisdiction over the land and granted it to Jeremiah Halsey and Andrew Ward in exchange for their construction of the state house in Hartford.

The Supreme Court denied a motion to remove the cases from the Circuit Court,[1] and New York subsequently filed a bill in equity against Connecticut and the Connecticut plaintiffs for an injunction to stay the ejectment proceedings.

Because the bill in equity was filed while the Connecticut General Assembly was out of session,[3] the state never actually participated in the case.

However, attorneys for the private land claimants argued that reasonable notice was not given for the injunction to be granted and that New York also lacked an interest in the proceedings to merit a stay.