Skinner v. Hartford Bridge Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action on the case for damage caused to the plaintiff’s property by the raising of a causeway by the defendants. The case was tried to the jury in the superior court on the general issue, with notice of the special matters of defense hereinafter stated.
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Action on the case for damage caused to the plaintiff’s property by the raising of a causeway by the defendants. The case was tried to the jury in the superior court on the general issue, with notice of the special matters of defense hereinafter stated. The defendants were incorporated in the year 1808 with power to construct and maintain a bridge across the Connecticut River at Hartford, and a causeway extending eastward from the bridge' through the East Hartford meadows, twenty feet in height above the ordinary level of the river in the month of August; and by a further resolution of the…
1Opinion of the CourtEllsworth, J.
In 1808 the legislature chartered the defendants to build a bridge over Connecticut liver, and a causeway through the East Hartford meadows. In 1810 the legislature passed an act providing for the assessment, by a committee named, of damages to land proprietors. This assessment was immediately made by the committee, who also made their report to the same legislature, which was approved and accepted. These land damages were at once paid to and accepted by the persons in whose favor they had been assessed, and among them was the person under whom the plaintiff holds the land in question.
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