Connecticut Railway & Lighting Co. v. City of Waterbury

By its appeal to the Superior Court the plaintiff, as owner of a tract of land abutting the westerly side of North Main Street in Waterbury, sought relief from an assessment of benefits for the construction of a sanitary sewer in the street opposite its property. This consists of a strip of vacant land fronting 298.6 feet on the street, with a maximum depth of forty-eight feet at its northerly end and a depth of less than ten feet at its southerly end. An undefined right of passage over it to the street interfering to some extent with the use of the plaintiff’s land is appurtenant to the…