O'Rourke v. City of Stamford

This case concerns the propriety of assessments to recover the cost of a new public sewerage system that in part replaced an existing and functional private sewer system. After assessments of special benefits by the defendant sewer commission of the defendant city of Stamford with regard to the construction and installation of the new sewerage system at Shippan Point, the plaintiffs John B. O’Rourke et al., 1 property owners previously connected to the older existing sewerage system, appealed pursuant to General Statutes § 7-250 2 to the Court of Common Pleas. That court sustained their…