Municipal Corporation Cases Annotated
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ISBN13: 9780217257220
Paperback|9780217257220
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Judd v. City of Hartford JUDD et al. v. City Of Hartford. (Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut, Ocl. 27, Drains and Sewers?Failure to Remove Obstructions?Flooding Property -Liability of City.?Where the cause of sewerage being forced in to abutting property, to its injury, during a severe, but not extraordinary, rain storm, is the negligence of the agents of a city in failing to remove obstructions from an adequate sewer, which were placed there for temporary purposes, the city cannot escape responsibility on account of its public character. Judgment against City?Lack of Funds.?A municipal corporation cannot avoid a judgment for a common-law liability by pleading that it has no money on hand out of which it can be paid. Appeal by defendant from Hartford county superior court. Affirmed. The finding stated the following facts: The plaintiffs owned a store on High street, in Hartford. The defendant city in 1873 laid a sewer in the street, with which the store was connected, and which was adequate to Case Stated. drain the area that it was built to drain. The owners of the store were assessed for benefits, and paid the assessment. On July 29, 1897, the city was engaged in building an intercepting sewer to divert the sewage from the High street sewer and other sewers from an outlet theretofore used into Park river, and send it into the Connecticut river. For this purpose the city had cut off the High street sewer 100 feet below the plaintiffs' store, and constructed a manhole there, with a 12-inch pipe at the bottom, running into the intercepting sewer, and a 24-inch brick storm-water sewer at the top, running under High street, in the line of the old sewer to the Park river. A stone was set as a dam in the See notes, 1 Municipal Corporation Cas...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217257220 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217257224 |
| Weight | 1.87 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.30 In |
| List Price | $35.44 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 584 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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