Legal Opinion
Somers v. City of Meriden
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided July 27, 1934PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, J.
In 1926 the plaintiff purchased for $41,000 a'lot, located on West Main Street in Meriden, having a frontage of fifty feet and a depth of one hundred and fifty feet, with a four-story brick and frame building and a four-car brick garage thereon. Directly thereafter he expended $10,000 in modernizing the main structure and converting it into a one-store building with lofts on the second, third and fourth floors so that it is adapted to a retail furniture business, and leased the property for that purpose for a term of fifteen years from July 1st, 1926, at an annual rent of $6000 for the first…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. BackusSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Rowland v. City of TylerTexas Commission of Appeals · 1928
- Underwood Typewriter Co. v. City of HartfordSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1923
- Oregon & Cal. R. R. v. Jackson CountyOregon Supreme Court · 1901
- Ives v. Town of GoshenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1895
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3Cited by52 opinions
- City of New Brunswick v. State of New Jersey Division of Tax AppealsSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1963
- Aetna Life Insurance Co. v. City of NewarkSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1952
- Parkview Village Associates v. Borough of CollingswoodSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1972
- Assessors of Quincy v. Boston Consolidated Gas Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1941
- Turgeon v. TurgeonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1983
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