The Newtown bee., 1897-02-19

hibited the maps which he had made | from the recent survey; also the map made by Engineer Smith from which l the highway in question had been built 1 and graded. MT Harper, when called upon, gave as testimony, that he had received the certificate of the new road from Engineer Smith. Second and Third Selectmen Skilton and Warner, when questioned in regard to the road,
 claimed they knew nothing about it as
 it had been commenced under the old
 board. Ex-Selectmen Lockwood and
 Douglass were then questioned, but
 could not say whether the road in ques-
 tion, had been graded according to the
 original survey or not. Mr. Harper
 testified that the property of Merritt
 Haminway, lying on the west side of
 the highway was about 334 feet front
 and that he valued the property with out buildings, before the road was built to be about $2,000 and that since the grading of the road he cons idered it
 worth $175 more. The cut in front of
 MT Heminway's property amounted in some places to IA inches. The property on | the east side of the road or in front of
 Dr Variell's residence extending 78 feet, 1 Mir Harper claimed was worth about $500 before the change of grade and ! worth $75 more afterwards. Louis Hemingway's property, $5,000 before 1 and $5050. E. W. Wheeler's place, with
 a frontage of 55 feet, he considered ] worth $500 without any material change.
 E. c. Marggarff, 169 feet front, valu
 at $6 ,000, no change. St Johns parish,
 l57 feet front value, from $S, ,000 to $9, GOO worth now about $25 to $50 more.
 The Pythian Hall Co.,, change of grade from three to six inches, value before grading, $6,000, after $6,100. Charles l W. Atwood, 140 feet front, cut IS in-
 ches at the north end, or nearly in front
 of the H. T. Dayton residence which he
 claimed improved the property for
 building purposes; value before grading, $500; after $900. Theodore Atwood l 107 feet front, fill of 15 inches extending
 the whole length, value 5000; after grading $650. B. H. Mattoon 164 feet
 front an average fill of one foot, value
 $6,000 after grading $6,050.I Mrs Louise ! Morse, grade lowered at south end
 about 12 in:hes, raised 12 inches at
 north and this the witness claimed was a
 mudhole previously, but was not good
 dry road. Value of the property before grading, g 1000; after, $2,075. At this point in MT Harper's testimony, Judge
 Root wanted to know if the town was
 not supposed to repair mud holes in the
 road without assessing benefits. Anson
 Hard's property contains 405 it frontage
 Here the fill on the south end was from
 IS to 20 inches ;ssvalue, 1,500 before the
 change; $1 ,600 after" This finished MI
 Harper's testimony and after he had
 been cross examined by Judge Root re
 cess was taken at l2 o'clock to meet
 again at 2. During the recess the com
 missioners went over the road an6
 looked at the different changes whict
 had been made. The afternoon session opened with George s. Chatfield o1
 Waterbury on the stand as witness fol
 Charles ". and Joseph Atwood, who
 are joint owners of the house north o1
 the old cemetery. It ls claimed by bott
 that they are damaged $452 and claiu , that amount from the town. They fur ther claim the road in front of the house : was raised IS inches as in place of 15 in l ches as claimed by the selectmen. Henry : T. Dayton claimed S400, it being neces !, sary for him to put in several new granite steps to lead down to the road
 the cut having been about IS inches
 From the house to the highway was drop of three feet; also there were sev : eral shade trees to preserve which 7 made necessary by the lowering of tn 7 road to build retaining wall to pre- serve them. Also he was damaged b! the present condition of the driveway which, however, he would leave to tn
 Judgment of the commissioners , Several gentlemen from Waterbury ant 3 Watertown then gave their opinion as t.
 the amount which MT Dayton's prop r erty had been damaged, the figure