Lane v. Board of Harbor Commissioners
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Application for relief from an order of the commissioners for New Haven harbor, bronght to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, Rorabaclc, J.; facts found and judgment rendered confirming said order, and appeal by the applicant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Application for relief from an order of the commissioners for New Haven harbor, bronght to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, Rorabaclc, J.; facts found and judgment rendered confirming said order, and appeal by the applicant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The application alleged, in substance, that Lane was the owner of land adjoining the waters of New Haven harbor, and of certain rights to extend wharves in front thereof; that he had in 1892 obtained from said harbor commissioners permission to extend wharves in front of said land nearly to the…
1Opinion of the CourtTorrahoe, J.
In 1892 the harbor commissioners gave Mr. Lane a written permit to wharf out over the tide-water flats in front of his upland, for a distance of about 426 feet towards the then only existing channel there. In September, 1896, they by a vote, under the circumstances stated in *694the record, revoked that permit in part, arid, in effect, limited his right to wharf out, to the new channel made in August, 1896, which was about 200 feet inside of his permit of 1892. In his application to the Superior Court the only thing of which Mr. Lane complains is the’ passage of this vote. The main question…
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