Hoffman Wall Paper Co. v. City of Hartford

Abraham Hoffman owned a piece of land with buildings thereon on North Main Street in the city of Hartford. In 1927 The Hoffman Wall Paper Company, Incorporated, hereinafter called the appellant, leased the property and thereafter conducted a store on the premises. The city took steps to widen North Main Street and established a new street line which cut through the main building upon the property, taking a portion of it about thirty feet in depth. Damages were appraised, to Hoffman for this taking and also to the appellant as lessee. Before the work of widening the street was completed the…