Algonquin Gas Transmission Co. v. Becker

This was an application for an order granting to the petitioner, a natural gas pipeline company, a right of immediate entry upon the lands of the respondents located in Newtown.

A condemnation proceeding was brought by the petitioner under the provisions of the Natural Gas Pipe Lines Act, chapter 264a of the 1951 Cumulative Supplement, 2 by writ and complaint dated March 31, 1952 and returnable to the Superior Court in Fairfield County on the first Tuesday of May, 1952. The original process was actually returned to court and filed in the clerk’s office on April 7, 1952. Subsequently, on April…