Chamberlain v. City of Bridgeport
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to restrain the defendant from levying taxes upon the land of the plaintiff for the purpose of defraying any other burdens or expenses than such as said land would have borne before the consolidation of the town and city of Bridgeport, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Fairfield County, Curtis, J., upon demurrer to the complaint; the court sustained the demurrer and, upon the refusal of the plaintiff to plead further, rendered judgment for the defendant,…
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Action to restrain the defendant from levying taxes upon the land of the plaintiff for the purpose of defraying any other burdens or expenses than such as said land would have borne before the consolidation of the town and city of Bridgeport, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Fairfield County, Curtis, J., upon demurrer to the complaint; the court sustained the demurrer and, upon the refusal of the plaintiff to plead further, rendered judgment for the defendant, from which the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The complaint alleges that the plaintiff is the owner of upward of two hundred and fifty acres of farm land in the town of Bridgeport, most of which is rough pasture, swamp, and wood land, all of which lies outside the bounds of the city as they existed prior to the passage of the Act consolidating the town and city of Bridgeport (10 Special Laws, p. 854), and thereafter lay within the limits of the first district. This Act divided the city into two taxing districts.
It is alleged that the land is without the benefit of sewers, lights, fire and police protection, that much of it is above the…
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