Hall v. City of Meriden
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Application for relief from an assessment of damages in favor and of benefits against the applicant in the laying out of a street by the authorities of the city of Meriden; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County, under the provisions of the city charter.
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Application for relief from an assessment of damages in favor and of benefits against the applicant in the laying out of a street by the authorities of the city of Meriden; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County, under the provisions of the city charter. The followings facts were found by a committee:— In the spring of 1868 Kellogg and Rust owned an extensive tract of land in the outskirts of the city of Meriden, and about that time laid it out into building lots, with streets plotted across the tract, and made a map of the same and filed it in the town clerk’s office in the town…
1Opinion of the CourtLoomis, J.
The first question made in this case is, whether, under the charter of the city of Meriden, damages assessed by the city authorities in favor of a party whose land is taken for a city street, can be reduced upon the party’s application to the Superior Court for relief. In the present case the plaintiff’s damages for land taken were assessed by the board of compensation at three hundred dollars. Upon his application for relief the committee to whom the case was referred by the Superior Court, found, subject to a certain legal question to be hereafter considered, “that the damages and benefits…
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