Whiting v. City of New Haven
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Petition in chancery, to compel the respondent city to pay to the petitioner, a mortgagee of certain land taken for the extension of a city street, compensation for the land so taken; brought to the Superior Court, and reserved, upon a demurrer to the petition, for the adyice of this court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtGranger, J.
This is a petition in equity in which the petitioner alleges that he was the mortgagee of certain lands described in the petition, and that the court of common council for the city of New Haven ordered an extensión and lay-out of Gilbert Avenue so called, which extension according to the order carried the street through the land mortgaged to the petitioner, thereby diminishing his mortgage security; that he had no notice of such lay-out and extension, and no notice of the meetings of the board of compensation, and that he was ignorant of the doings of the city in the premises until after it…
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