City of Hartford v. Poindexter
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to foreclose a lien for benefits arising from the layout of a city street, brought by appeal of the defendants from a judgment of the City Court of Hartford to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the court, Burpee, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, from which most of the defendants appealed.
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Suit to foreclose a lien for benefits arising from the layout of a city street, brought by appeal of the defendants from a judgment of the City Court of Hartford to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the court, Burpee, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, from which most of the defendants appealed. The finding shows that the plaintiff, to prove that the assessment, on account of which the lien in question was filed, was legally made, introduced in evidence a record of the proceedings and vote of its court of common council passed April 1st, 1871, and…
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The defendants own land on Albany Avenue in the city of Hartford. Their several lots formerly constituted one tract which was owned by James G. Batterson, through whom directly or by mesne conveyances they all derive title. In 1871, when the land was owned by Batterson, the plaintiff caused a certificate of lien, of which the following is a copy, to be filed with the Hartford town clerk: “This may certify that an assessment for Albany Avenue Street and Building Lines of Five Hundred & Twenty-five Dollars for a public work or improvement has been made on James G. Batterson on account of a…
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