Legal Opinion
Brainard v. Town of West Hartford
Connecticut Superior Court
Decided March 17, 1953No. File 92074PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAlcorn, J.
The plaintiffs seek to enjoin the defendant’s use of a tract of land for a public dump. The defendant’s answer admits that it owns about 30.6 acres of land on Talcott Mountain with a frontage of about 200 feet on Albany Avenue in West Hartford which it purchased for use as a town dump “sometime in the distant future.” It denies, however, that it is threatening and proposing to use the land for that purpose “in the present or near future.” There is, however, no contemplated use for the property except as a town dump. The town owns no other land available for the purpose.
At the trial the…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Gerald Park Improvement Assn. v. BiniSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1951
- Goodwin v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1876
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