Waterbury v. Town of Darien
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a petition to the county court, brought by Waterbury and others, against the town of Darien, stating, that public convenience and necessity require, that a new highway should be laid out in said town, leading from the South end of Hoyt street, running in a South-Easterly direction, through certain lands particularly described, a distance of 247 rods, to intersect the Hollow-tree ridge road near the dwelling-house of A. Waterbury, in said Darien; shewing the nature…
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This was a petition to the county court, brought by Waterbury and others, against the town of Darien, stating, that public convenience and necessity require, that a new highway should be laid out in said town, leading from the South end of Hoyt street, running in a South-Easterly direction, through certain lands particularly described, a distance of 247 rods, to intersect the Hollow-tree ridge road near the dwelling-house of A. Waterbury, in said Darien; shewing the nature of the ground, the expense of constructing the road, and the distance to be saved thereby in the travel and…
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, J.
It is provided by statute, that select-men may (at their discretion) lay out such public highways as they shall judge needful within their respective towns. Stat. 268. tit. 48. sect. 11. By the 12th section of the same statute, it is further provided, that when any new highway or common road from town to town, or place to place within the same town, where the select-men of that town neglect or refuse to lay out the same, shall be wanting, any person may apply to the county court for relief. This statute gives the select-men original, and the county court appellate, jurisdiction. But it does…
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