Kelley v. Town of Torrington
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action of scire facias against a garnishee, brought to the Court pf Common Pleas in Litchfield County and tried to the jury before Tyner, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, and appeals by the defendant. . In this court the appellee, filed a plea in abatement to the appeals. Plea sustained as to the so-called appeal from denial of motion to set aside the verdict, and overruled as to the appeal from final judgment.
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Action of scire facias against a garnishee, brought to the Court pf Common Pleas in Litchfield County and tried to the jury before Tyner, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, and appeals by the defendant. . In this court the appellee, filed a plea in abatement to the appeals. Plea sustained as to the so-called appeal from denial of motion to set aside the verdict, and overruled as to the appeal from final judgment. Upon the trial below it was admitted that the original defendants, William Mella & Company, had performed work in the improvement and change of a highway in the defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The defendant claimed that the selectmen, in carrying out the vote of the town for improving the Daytonville road under the Good Roads Act, had no authority to let out the work of the improvement without competition. The court, after reading to the jury from the case of Griswold v. Guilford, 75 Conn. 192, 52 Atl. 742, instructed them as follows : “ I charge you, therefore, that under the Good Roads law and the construction which our Supreme Court has put upon it in the case which I have just read to you, the selectmen of the fown of Torrington had authority to make an oral or written contract…
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