Betts v. New Hartford
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a petition brought to the term of the county court for the county of Litchfield, holden in December, 1854, by J. H. Betts and others, praying that a highway might be laid out in the town of New Hartford, in Pine Meadow.
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This was a petition brought to the term of the county court for the county of Litchfield, holden in December, 1854, by J. H. Betts and others, praying that a highway might be laid out in the town of New Hartford, in Pine Meadow. The petition was referred to the county commissioners, who surveyed and laid out the highway, and made their report to the superior court, at its November term, 1855. Against the acceptance of this report the defendants filed a remonstrance, upon the hearing of which the court found the following facts. On the hearing before the commissioners, the respondents offered…
1Opinion of the CourtEllsworth, J.
One of the questions reserved for this court is, whether the record of the case 'of the State v. Hermon Chapin, in the superior court, was improperly rejected by the commissioners, on their inquiry into the common con*185venience and necessity of the highway prayed for. It appears, that Chapin had been tried and found guilty for placing an obstruction in a certain highway, and was fined by the justice, four dollar's. He appealed to the county court and again was found guilty, and fined ten dollars. He then carried the case by writ of error, into the superior court, but did not get a reversal of…
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