Dodd v. City of Hartford
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a bill in chancery brought by James Dodd and thirty-two others in behalf of themselves and certain other persons named in a schedule annexed to the bill against the mayor aldermen common council and freemen of the city of Hartford, praying for an injunction restraining the defendants from enforcing the collection of certain assessments for the expenses of constructing a sewer within said city.
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This was a bill in chancery brought by James Dodd and thirty-two others in behalf of themselves and certain other persons named in a schedule annexed to the bill against the mayor aldermen common council and freemen of the city of Hartford, praying for an injunction restraining the defendants from enforcing the collection of certain assessments for the expenses of constructing a sewer within said city. The bill alleged substantially that on the 14th day of June 1855, the mayor of said city issued a warrant of distress against the goods and chattels of the plaintiffs, for the purpose of…
1Opinion of the CourtSeymour, J.
This is an application to the superior court as a court of chancery, to restrain the defendants from enforcing the collection of certain assessments for the expenses of a sewer.
The petitioners complain that these assessments and the warrants issued for their collection are illegal and void, and that the petitioners and other persons to the number of three hundred and upwards, will be compelled to commence separate suits, for the damages they will suffer if are executed, and that thus the peace of the^jofijsissif be disturbed, and expense and vexation wiMemíue, unless injunction be granted to…
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