Hubbard v. City of Hartford
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Writ of error returnable before the Superior Court for Hartford County, to reverse an appraisal and award of damages for land taken for public use by the defendant city, made by appraisers appointed by a judge of that court, and recorded by its clerk. The Superior Court ( Oase, JJ) ordered the cause erased from the docket for want of jurisdiction and the plaintiffs in error appealed to this court.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The jurisdiction of the Superior Court, un der the principles of the common law, embraces writs of error coram nobis to reverse judgments previously rendered by it, which were erroneous in matters of fact. Jeffery v. Fitch, 46 Conn. 601, 604; Mall v. Paine, 47 id. 429, 431. The common law, however, did not permit the joinder of errors in fact with errors in law. Fitch v. Lathrop, 2 Root, 524. In 1882 a statute was passed (Public Acts of 1882, p. 214, Chap. 136) which was substantially re-enacted in the General Statutes, § 1146, providing that “ writs of error, for errors in matters of fact,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Jeffery v. FitchSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1879
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