Gray's Appeal From Street Commissioners
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from an assessment of damages and benefits, arising from tbe layout of a. highway in the city of Hartford, taken to the Son. John Goats, judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Hartford, County, and referred to a committee who found and reported the facts; the report was accepted, a remonstrance thereto overruled, and judgment rendered confirming the assessment made by the board of street commissioners, from which the appellants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The first six assignments of error question the correctness of the action of Judge Goals in overruling the remonstrance of the appellants and accepting the report of the committee. They may be considered together.
A short street about 450 feet in length, extending westerly from Sisson Avenue to Evergreen Avenue, was laid out by the city of Hartford. John S. Hunter owned the land over which the westerly 165 feet of the street was laid, and also the adjoining land on both sides. The appellants owned land abutting on the street farther east. The board of street commissioners, to whom the matter…
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