Pickles v. City of Ansonia
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover special damage for injury to the land of the plaintiff adjoining a highway, resulting from a change of grade, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Holinson, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
The finding of facts shows that upon the trial the plaintiff offered evidence to prove that he was the owner of land, with a dwelling-house thereon, on the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Clover Street, in the city of Ansonia, and that in 1901, under an order of the common council, passed in 1895, establishing a grade of Myrtle Avenue, the defendant changed the then existing grade of that street by cutting it down so as to leave a perpendicular bank in front of the plaintiff’s premises ranging in height from three to nine feet, requiring the plaintiff to build a wall in front of his property in…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- McGar v. Borough of BristolSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1899
- Baxter v. CampSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1898
- Cook v. City of AnsoniaSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1895
- Sanford v. PeckSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1893
- Platt v. Town of MilfordSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1895
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