Clark v. Town of Saybrook
Supreme Court of Connecticut
IN ERROR. The proceeding in this case was commenced by a petition to the county court, brought by Peres Haskill and others against the town of Saybrook, for an alteration of the public highway leading from Deep River to Meadow Woods and Essex; which the select-men had refused to lay out.
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IN ERROR. The proceeding in this case was commenced by a petition to the county court, brought by Peres Haskill and others against the town of Saybrook, for an alteration of the public highway leading from Deep River to Meadow Woods and Essex; which the select-men had refused to lay out. In April, 1847, the commissioners for Middlesex county, to whom the petition had been referred, made their report, laying out a new road, and recommending the erection of a bridge over the deepest place of the creek or cove where the road thus laid out would cross it, and assessing the damages accruing…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, J.
1. The plaintiff in error insisted, that, as the 12th section of the act relating to highways and bridges, (Stat. 340, 1. ed. 1838.) under which the proceedings of the *320county court took place, provides, that that court should have power to set aside the doings of the jury summoned to reassess damages, where it should appear that the jury had been improper]y summoned, or had conducted corruptly, and that otherwise their doings should be conclusive as to the assessment of damages, they could be set aside for no other cause; and that, as neither of these exceptions was taken to their report, it…
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