Guptill Holding Corp. v. State

Appeal by the State from a judgment of the Court of Claims for direct and consequential damages arising out of an appropriation of lands for purposes of the North way. The appropriation was of small parcels taken from each of two large contiguous tracts which were in the course of development as one unit. After the appropriation and the filing of the claim, the State advised claimant corporation that title to one of the parcels appeared to be in the name of Charles M. Guptill, claimant’s president, and suggested that he assign his claim to the corporation and that the corporation’s claim be…