Fox v. City of South Norwalk
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Application in the nature of an appeal from an assessment of benefits and damages resulting from the layout, widening, and grading of a city street, brought before the Hon. Edwin B. Gager, a judge of the Superior Court, and referred to a committee who heard and reported the facts; the defendant filed a remonstrance to the original and supplemental report of the' committee, to which the plaintiffs demurred; the judge sustained the demurrer, accepted the committee's report,…
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Application in the nature of an appeal from an assessment of benefits and damages resulting from the layout, widening, and grading of a city street, brought before the Hon. Edwin B. Gager, a judge of the Superior Court, and referred to a committee who heard and reported the facts; the defendant filed a remonstrance to the original and supplemental report of the' committee, to which the plaintiffs demurred; the judge sustained the demurrer, accepted the committee's report, and rendered judgment in favor of the plaintiffs, from which the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtThayee, J.
A committee, appointed by Judge Gager to reappraise and reassess benefits and damages, assessed the damages accruing to the plaintiffs from the layout, widening, and grading of the street in question at a greater sum than was assessed in their favor on the original assessment, and appraised their benefits at a lesser sum. When- the report came in, the defendant moved for its recommittal to the committee with instructions that it should be so amended as to state all the rulings upon evidence admitted or excluded by the committee against the defendant’s exceptions, to state all the claims of…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Bishop v. City of New HavenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1909
- Ferguson v. Borough of StamfordSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1891
- State v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1891
- Geary v. City of New HavenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1903
- McKeon v. ByingtonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1898
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