New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad v. Stevens
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Application to the Ron. Alberto T. Roraback, a judge of the Superior Court, for the appointment of appraisers to estimate the compensation to he paid to the defendant for land taken for the uses of a street railway. A motion to dismiss the application, and then a demurrer to it, having been successively filed and overruled, the case was heard on the merits, and a judgment rendered appointing appraisers, from which this appeal was taken.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, C. J.
The Woodbury and Waterbury Street Railway Company was incorporated in 1903, with power “ to locate, construct, and finally complete a street railway upon” a route particularly described in the charter, and further “ to construct, maintain, and operate a line of railway upon any private property which it has or may acquire near to the route mentioned herein.” The route described was in part from a point “ about one thousand feet southerly from the dam at Quassapaug pond,” in the highway leading from Woodbury through Middlebury to Southbury, “ Northerly along said highway to the southerly end…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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