Quinebaug Reservoir Co. v. Town of Union
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Applications in the nature of appeals from the doings of the board of relief of the town of Union, brought to the Superior Court for Tolland County, a.nd heard together by the court, Ralph Wheeler, J., on an agreed statement of facts, and judgment rendered in each case for the town, from which the taxpayers appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The Quinebaug Reservoir Company is a Massachusetts corporation.
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Applications in the nature of appeals from the doings of the board of relief of the town of Union, brought to the Superior Court for Tolland County, a.nd heard together by the court, Ralph Wheeler, J., on an agreed statement of facts, and judgment rendered in each case for the town, from which the taxpayers appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The Quinebaug Reservoir Company is a Massachusetts corporation. In 1846, being the owner of certain land surrounding Mashapaug Pond, with a dam and water privileges, in Union, in this State, it sold and conveyed them to one Leland…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
General Statutes, § 3827, provide that all property, not exempted, shall be liable to taxation, and that all real estate shall be set in the list of the town where it is situated. The conveyance by the Quinebaug Reservoir Company to Leland made him the owner in fee of certain lands, and reserved to it a right issuing out of those lands, which was perpetually charged upon them in favor of the company and its successors and assigns. This right was an incorporeal hereditament, and real estate. All real estate, whether corporeal or incorporeal, has a fixed situs. This hereditament, in the eye of…
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