State v. Ladd

This is a land taking case in which the issue of the nature of the defendants’ title was tried by the Court (Botones, J.) who made written findings and rulings. Defendants’ exceptions were reserved and transferred by the trial court.

The property in dispute formerly was a portion of the roadbed of the Suncook Valley Railroad. The railroad went into receivership and abandoned its roadbed long before the State’s taking on August 16, 1965. On September 14, 1953 the railroad deeded to Edmund Stapleton, Receiver, “ all the lands and buildings owned by said Suncook Valley Railroad in the counties of…