Baker v. Town of West Hartford
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Application in the nature of an appeal from the refusal of the board of relief of the defendant town to erase from the plaintiff’s tax list, as exempt from taxation, an item of eighteen acres of land added thereto by the assessors, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Hartford County, Gager, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant.
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Application in the nature of an appeal from the refusal of the board of relief of the defendant town to erase from the plaintiff’s tax list, as exempt from taxation, an item of eighteen acres of land added thereto by the assessors, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Hartford County, Gager, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant. The land in question consisted of eighteen and two-tenths acres situated at the southwest corner of Asylum Avenue and Steele Road in the town of West Hartford. In 1911 there was a controversy between Baker and…
1Opinion of the Court
Rokabace;, J.
Numerous reasons of appeal assign errors in finding certain facts and in refusing to find other facts. The evidence is before us under § 797 of the General Statutes. Only two or three of these assignments were pursued in argument. None of them merit discussion; therefore the claims made for a correction of the finding are denied.
The defendant, in one of its reasons of appeal, claims that chapter 205 of the Public Acts of 1911 (p. 1479) is unconstitutional, as it provides a special privilege. In connection with this claim it is also urged that this Act is against public policy, as…
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