Park City Yacht Club v. City of Bridgeport
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Application in the nature of an appeal from an assessment of special benefits on account of the laying out and widening of Stratford Avenue in Bridgeport, taken to and tried by the Superior Court in Fairfield County, Gager, J.; facts found and judgment rendered confirming the assessment, and appeal by the landowner.
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
Section 42 of the charter of the city of Bridgeport (12 Special Laws, p. 533) authorizes the common council, as they shall deem needful, to lay out new highways, and to alter, extend, or enlarge any highway, and to discontinue or exchange the same for other highways, and to make and cause to be executed all such orders relating thereto as they shall judge proper.
Section 45 of the charter (12 Special Laws, p. 534) requires the common council, before it shall determine to make any such public improvement referred to in § 42, to cause reasonable notice to be given of a meeting of the common…
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