(DOWNLOAD) "Research Assoc. v. New Haven Redevelop. Agency" by Supreme Court of Connecticut * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Research Assoc. v. New Haven Redevelop. Agency
- Author : Supreme Court of Connecticut
- Release Date : January 10, 1964
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 67 KB
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The defendant, in eminent domain proceedings, took land and two tenement houses of the plaintiff for redevelopment purposes and assessed damages at $37,900. The plaintiff applied to the Superior Court for a review of the assessment, and the matter was referred to a State referee, all pursuant to General Statutes 8-132. The referee found the land to have a value of $15,800 and the two tenement houses to be without value at the time of the taking. The court accepted the referee's report,1 as amended, overruled the plaintiff's exceptions thereto, and rendered judgment thereon. From this judgment the plaintiff has taken this appeal. The damages sustained in a taking by eminent domain are to be measured as of the date of the taking. Colaluca v. Ives, 150 Conn. 521, 531, 191 A.2d 340; DelVecchio v. New Haven Redevelopment Agency, 147 Conn. 362, 365, 161 A.2d 190. The referee fixed that date as September 17, 1962, which was the date on which the certificate of taking was recorded, as provided in General Statutes 8-129. The plaintiff argues that the date of the taking was in fact somewhere ""from August 1961 until December 1961"". The basis of this most unusual contention is apparently a claim, unsupported by any allegations in the complaint, of a conspiracy between the defendant, on the one hand, and the New Haven board of health and the ""city authorities"", on the other, to drive the price of the plaintiff's land down by denying the plaintiff the building