Laurel, Inc. v. Commissioner of Transportation

This is the court’s third opinion in a course of protracted litigation which began when the defendant commissioner took 0.38 of an acre of land from the plaintiff on January 23, 1974. The plaintiff appealed from the commissioner’s $41,200 assessment of damages, alleging a constitutional taking of the remainder of its property, about 9.3 acres, and sought damages for that as well. The Superior Court awarded damages for inverse condemnation under General Statutes §48-17b and ordered the defendants to amend the certificate of taking and assessment of damages and to take all of the plaintiff’s…