City of Norwich v. Story
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a petition founded on the 29th section of the statute relating to highways and bridges, brought to the county court in October, 1853, by Samuel Story and others, praying for a new highway within the limits of the City of Norwich. The respondents appeared and moved that the cause should be erased from the docket on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction.
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This was a petition founded on the 29th section of the statute relating to highways and bridges, brought to the county court in October, 1853, by Samuel Story and others, praying for a new highway within the limits of the City of Norwich. The respondents appeared and moved that the cause should be erased from the docket on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction. This motion was refused, and the court appointed a committee who made their report in June, 1855, laying out the highway prayed for. By legal remove and continuance, the cause came to the term of the superior court holden in…
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, J.
This was an application originally brought to the county court by the plaintiffs, Story and others, inhabitants of the city of Norwich, praying that a new highway within the limits of the city, be laid out and established, for the special convenience of said city, under the 29th section of the statute relating to highways and bridges. Rev. Stat., p. 591.
The highway was established as prayed for, and the proceedings are admitted to be regular in point of form, but the claim is made on behalf of the city, that, by the act amending the city charter, which was passed in 1836, the court of common…
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