Stevens v. Connecticut Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from an order of the railroad commissioners approving the alteration and widening of the location and layout of the defendant’s right of way for its street railway over private property, taken to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Case, J.; facts found and judgment rendered dismissing the appeal and affirming the order of said commissioners, and appeal by the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, C. J.
Many of the facts which make up the history of the defendant’s attempts for several years to procure the condemnation, for the purposes of its street railway, of certain land belonging to the plaintiff, appear in the cases of New York, N. H. & H. R. Co. v. Stevens, 81 Conn. 16, 69 Atl. 1052, and Stevens v. New York, N. H. & H. R. Co., 83 Conn. 603, 78 Atl. 440. Some of those facts are relevant to the questions raised in the present proceeding, by which the defendant is seeking, under chapter 101 of the Public Acts of 1909, to condemn, for its railroad purposes, a described strip of the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Jones v. New Orleans & Selma RailroadSupreme Court of Alabama · 1881
- Norton v. Shore Line Electric Railway Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1911
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad v. StevensSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1908
- St. Johnsbitry & Lake Champlain Railroad v. WillardSupreme Court of Vermont · 1888
- United States Envelope Co. v. Town of VernonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1899
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