Griswold v. Town of Guilford
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for injuries to land adjoining a highway, resulting from a change in its grade, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County where a demurrer to certain paragraphs of the answer was sustained (8hum way. J.) and the case afterwards tried, to the jury Bor aback, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs for $300 damages, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court.
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Action to recover damages for injuries to land adjoining a highway, resulting from a change in its grade, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County where a demurrer to certain paragraphs of the answer was sustained (8hum way. J.) and the case afterwards tried, to the jury Bor aback, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs for $300 damages, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
Under this appeal an attempt is made to raise two substantial questions of law. The first relates to the constitutionality of the Act which gives to adjoining property owners the right to damages occasioned by changes of highway grades, being the Act which was first passed in 1882, which appears as § 2703 of the General Statutes (Rev. 1902, § 2051), and which was later amended by the provisions of Chap. 211 of the Public Acts of 1895. The legislation contained in Chap. 66 of the Public Acts of 1901 (Rev. 1902, § 2051) does not concern this action, as it was subsequent to the public work in…
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