Beardsley v. Town of WashIngton
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Petition for a highway, brought to the Superior Court in Litchfield County, and referred to a committee who reported in favor of laying ont the road. Sundry tax-paying inhabitants of the respondent town filed a remonstrance against the acceptance of the report, which was heard by the court and the following facts found thereon.
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Petition for a highway, brought to the Superior Court in Litchfield County, and referred to a committee who reported in favor of laying ont the road. Sundry tax-paying inhabitants of the respondent town filed a remonstrance against the acceptance of the report, which was heard by the court and the following facts found thereon. The trial before the committee was held at the village of New Preston, near the locality of the proposed road, and the place most convenient for the accommodation of all parties in interest. As there was no public house in the village, where the committee could at that…
1Opinion of the Court
Butler, O. J.
The trial of applications of this character cannot be guarded with the same strictness as those which are had in court, but every precaution which can reasonably be *268taken, to guard against even the possibility of improper influence, and to ensure a perfectly fair trial, should be observed. Primd facie the entertainment of the triers by one of the parties, for all or any part of the time occupied by the trial, is irregular and improper, for though all may say that no undue influence has been observed or attempted, there may be an influence felt and operative, which is not seen or…
2Cited by4 opinions
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- Ives v. Town of East HavenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1880
- Greene v. Town of East HaddamSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1884
- Williams v. Town of StoningtonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1881