Walz v. Bennett
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Petition by the plaintiff for a reassessment of the damages sustained by him from the taking of a portion of his land for highway purposes, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County, which appointed a committee, accepted its report, and, pursuant thereto, rendered judgment (Warner, J.) in favor of the plaintiff, increasing his damages from $1,500 to $2,250, and from this judgment the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCurtis, J.
When the report of the committee came before the Superior Court upon remonstrance, it appeared from the report that the committee had made a reassessment in favor of the plaintiff in the alternative, for the sum of $2,250 or $1,750, dependent upon whether or not he owned the full riparian rights in the Housatonic River attached to his upland, a portion of which upland was taken for highway purposes.
In his remonstrance the highway commissioner stated, as one ground for rejecting the report: “3. Because the said committee have made an alternative finding in their report in paragraph six…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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