Legal Opinion
Howe v. Town of Ridgefield
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided March 15, 1883PublishedCited by 1 opinion
Suit for the laying out of a highway; brought to the Superior Court. The committee reported in favor of laying out the way; the defendant town and sundry land-owners remonstrated against the acceptance of the report; the court QSanford, J.,~) overruled the remonstrances, accepted the report, and passed a decree laying out the way. Appeal by the defendants. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPark, C. J.
Many questions are raised by the remonstrances of the different defendants in this case, but we shall consider only one of them, which grows out of that of the defendant town. Its remonstrance makes the following allegations:—
“ The highway which the committee were asked to lay out was about ninety rods in length and extended from the spot marked A upon the map, northeasterly to the spot marked B; the point marked A is situated in the main highway from North Salem, a village with a population of three hundred, to Danbury, about nine miles distant. B is situated in an unfrequented lane running…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Congdon v. City of NorwichSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1870
- Townsend v. HoyleSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1849
- Hoadley v. Town of WaterburySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1867
- Perkins v. Town of AndoverSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1863
3Cited by1 opinion
- Reed v. Planning & Zoning CommissionConnecticut Appellate Court · 1987