Harris v. Towns of Woodstock, Pomfret & Eastford
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a petition for a highway, which was referred by the superior court to a committee, consisting of A. B. Lockwood, David Gallup and George Tillinghast. The committee reported against the petition, and the petitioners remonstrated against the acceptance of the report on the ground that the committee had been guilty of irregular and improper conduct in their proceedings.
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This was a petition for a highway, which was referred by the superior court to a committee, consisting of A. B. Lockwood, David Gallup and George Tillinghast. The committee reported against the petition, and the petitioners remonstrated against the acceptance of the report on the ground that the committee had been guilty of irregular and improper conduct in their proceedings. On the hearing upon the remonstrance, the court found the following facts with regard to the matters alleged in the remonstrance. The parties appeared before the committee and were fully heard with their evidence and…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCurdy, J.
The general principle applicable to trials in whatever form, is that the utmost practicable fairness should be observed. No trick or surprise should be allowed, and no evidence or argument admitted on one side which the other party may not have an opportunity to meet and deny, or refute, or explain. As the mode of trial before a highway committee is very different from that before a jury, much less strictness is required in relation to the intercourse between parties or counsel and the triers in one case than in the other. But the same great object should be kept in view, and the same…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Towns of Wethersfield & Glastenbury v. HumphreySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1850
- Hickox v. ParmeleeSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1851
3Cited by4 opinions
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- Borough of Norwalk v. BlanchardSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1888
- Carney v. WilkinsonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1896
- Pond v. Town of MilfordSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1868