City of Meriden v. Zwalniski
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Application for the appointment of appraisers to estimate the damages sustained by the respective defendants from a taking of their lands by the plaintiff for reservoir purposes, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County where a committee was appointed (Bennett, J.) who heard the parties and reported the facts; the court (Gager, J.) overruled the plaintiff’s remonstrance to the acceptance of the report, accepted the report and rendered judgment, in accordance…
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Application for the appointment of appraisers to estimate the damages sustained by the respective defendants from a taking of their lands by the plaintiff for reservoir purposes, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County where a committee was appointed (Bennett, J.) who heard the parties and reported the facts; the court (Gager, J.) overruled the plaintiff’s remonstrance to the acceptance of the report, accepted the report and rendered judgment, in accordance therewith, in favor of the defendant Turner for $3,500, and (Holcomb, J.) in favor of the defendant Terrill for $4,500, from…
1Opinion of the CourtThayek, J.
That the committee adopted the correct rule for assessing the damages to the respondents is not questioned on this appeal. The amounts which the respondents were entitled to recover were to be ascertained by comparing the values of the farms before the taking with the values of what was left after the taking, in view of the new conditions created by the taking. New York, N. H. & H. R. Co. v. New Haven, 81 Conn. 581, 583, 71 Atl. 780; 2 Lewis on Eminent Domain (3d Ed.) § 686; Johnson v. Boston, 130 Mass. 452, 454; Lincoln v. Commonwealth, 164 Mass. 368, 376, 41 N. E. 489; Penney v.…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Lincoln v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1895
- New Milford Water Co. v. WatsonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1902
- Fox v. City of South NorwalkSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1912
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad v. City of New HavenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1909
- Penney v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
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