Newton Appeal From Board of Street Commissioners
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from an assessment of benefits and damages arising from the establishment of street, building, and veranda lines, and the grade, of an extension of Capitol Avenue in Hartford, taken by three property owners to the Hon. John Coats, judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County, and reserved by him, upon the facts found by a committee and remonstrances to his report, for the consideration and advice of this court.
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Appeal from an assessment of benefits and damages arising from the establishment of street, building, and veranda lines, and the grade, of an extension of Capitol Avenue in Hartford, taken by three property owners to the Hon. John Coats, judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County, and reserved by him, upon the facts found by a committee and remonstrances to his report, for the consideration and advice of this court. On March 4th, 1908, the board of street commissioners of the city of Hartford duly made an appraisement of damages to over thirty different owners, and an assessment of…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The board of street commissioners of Hartford awarded damages to over thirty owners, and assessed benefits against over one hundred and twenty-five owners, for the layout of Capitol Avenue extension; three of these owners appealed. The committee to whom the judge referred these appeals for hearing made its report, against the acceptance of which the city of Hartford and Newton, one of the appellants, remonstrated. By stipulation the judge reserved the questions arising on the remonstrance for the advice of this court.
We will, in the first instance, consider the questions arising upon the…
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