Cockcroft's Appeal From Railroad Commissioners
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from an order of the railroad commissioners; taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County, and heard before Robinson, J. Motion to erase from the docket for want of jurisdiction granted by the court, and appeal by the original appellants. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSeymoub, J.
On the 10th of February, 1890, the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company presented its petition to the railroad commissioners, stating that the proper operation of its railroad, and public convenience and necessity, require the taking by the petitioner, for additional tracks, turnouts and freight and passenger stations and depots at Westport, of certain lands therein bounded and described. The petition also states that theretofore one Nash conveyed to the petitioner certain lands by a deed containing the, provision “ that said company are to construct for the grantor a convenient…
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