Inhabitants of Windsor v. Field
Supreme Court of Connecticut
IN ERROR. THIS was a petition to the county court of Hartford county, brought by the present defendants in error, praying for the appointment of a committee to view and lay out a public highway between two specified points, one in Suffield, the other in Windsor, to ascertain the place and course of such highway, and to estimate the damage done to any particular persons by laying out the same.
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IN ERROR. THIS was a petition to the county court of Hartford county, brought by the present defendants in error, praying for the appointment of a committee to view and lay out a public highway between two specified points, one in Suffield, the other in Windsor, to ascertain the place and course of such highway, and to estimate the damage done to any particular persons by laying out the same. The petition stated, “ That the present travelled road leading from the oil-mill bridge in Suffield southerly through Pine-Meadow, and uniting with the road leading from the town of Windsor to Suffield…
1Opinion of the CourtEdmond, J.
The first cause of error assigned is, That the petition of the petitioners is insufficient in law to warrant the county court in rendering final judgment in the cause ; that the superior court ought to have adjudged the same to be insufficient; and that the proceedings of the county court were erroneous.
*282It was decided by this Court, in the case of Lockwood v. Gregory, 4 Day’s Ca. 415. that in an application to the county court for a new highway, a specific allegation that the road prayed for would be of common convenience and necessity, is not necessary; that if the application state such…
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