Woodruff v. Catlin
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Applications by commissioners appointed by tbe General Assembly, to Judge Carpenter, a judge of tbe Superior Court, for the appointment of appraisers of land taken for an alteration of a street and railroad tracks in the city of Hartford.
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Applications by commissioners appointed by tbe General Assembly, to Judge Carpenter, a judge of tbe Superior Court, for the appointment of appraisers of land taken for an alteration of a street and railroad tracks in the city of Hartford. There were two applications with regard to land of the defendant Julius Catlin, one pertaining to land taken for the use of The New York & New England Railroad Company and the other to land taken for the use of The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company. There were also two applications with regard to land of the defendant Mary Graham, one…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
These are two cases, argued together, of proceedings for the condemnation of land for railway and highway uses.
The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad and the New York & New England Railroad cross Asylum Street, a much used highway in the city of Hartford, at grade.
In 1885 the legislature of this state passed the following resolution:—“ That a resolution of the General Assembly, approved April 4th, 1884, providing for a bridge at the railroad crossing at Asylum Street, Hartford, be amended by inserting in section one, in the fifth line, after the word ‘ railroads,’ the words ‘ or for the…
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