City of Hartford v. West Middle District
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Debt, to recover the amount of an assessment for the expense of the laying out of a city street, near to a schoolhouse of the defendants, an incorporated school district of the town of Hartford. The action was brought to the Superior Court in the county of -Hartford, and tried to the court before Hovey, J., who made a finding of the facts and rendered judgment for the plaintiffs. The defendants brought the record before this court by a motion in error.
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Debt, to recover the amount of an assessment for the expense of the laying out of a city street, near to a schoolhouse of the defendants, an incorporated school district of the town of Hartford. The action was brought to the Superior Court in the county of -Hartford, and tried to the court before Hovey, J., who made a finding of the facts and rendered judgment for the plaintiffs. The defendants brought the record before this court by a motion in error. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtGranger, J.
The principal question presented by this record is, whether a school district is liable to assessment for benefits to its property by the laying out of a street or highway. If this question is determined, as we think it must be, in favor of the defendants in this case, a consideration of the other questions made becomes unnecessary.
The Superior Court finds that the “ assessment was made upon the defendants, because they were the owners of property in said city, which in the opinion of the board of street commissioners was specially benefited by the laying out of said new highway or street.…
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