Park City Yacht Club v. City of Bridgeport
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Application in the nature of an appeal from an assessment of special benefits on account of the laying out and widening of Stratford Avenue in Bridgeport, brought to and reserved by the Superior Court in Fairfield County, Curtis, J., upon a finding of facts, for the advice of this court.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The record in this case when before this court upon a former occasion (81 Conn. 76, 70 Atl. 631) contains a statement of facts substantially similar to those of the present record, by which it appears that:—
The plaintiff is a yacht club, owning and occupying a clubhouse upon the south side of Stratford Avenue in Bridgeport and on the easterly bank of an arm of the harbor, which was crossed by Stratford Avenue by means of a solid stone causeway. Acting under its charter and the various votes and orders of its common council, committees, and boards, all of which appear in detail in the opinion…
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