Monroe v. Borough of Danbury
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a petition, brought by certain inhabitants of the borough of Danbury, to the term of the county court for Fairfield county, holden in December, 1853, praying for the laying out and establishing a new highway, within the limits of said borough.
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This was a petition, brought by certain inhabitants of the borough of Danbury, to the term of the county court for Fairfield county, holden in December, 1853, praying for the laying out and establishing a new highway, within the limits of said borough. The court referred the petition to the county commissioners, who, having heard the same, made their report to said court, at the term holden in August, 1854, finding therein,that the special convenience and necessity of said borough, and its inhabitants, required said road, and laying out the same, and assessing the damages occasioned to the…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, J.
It appears, from the finding of the county court, on the seventh ground of remonstrance, that, when the petition in this case was brought, the borough of Danbury *203had commenced proceeding with the steps, requisite by its charter, for the purpose of laying out a part of the highway, which is prayed for in said petitionand that afterward, and before the county commissioners had acted on this petition,' that part of the highway had been legally laid out, and established as a highway. These steps, on the part of the borough, were public proceedings, and must be presumed to have been known to the…
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