Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-18
LEGAL LIGHTS DIFFER.
Attorneys Cole and Kellogs's Tilt on
 Building Line Question.

Il He DOaru or aldermen met last night, Chairman Blakeslee presiding, and listened to the report of the com mittee appointed last week to inquire into the situation with reference to a building line on Hillside avenue from Fairview street to Prospect street, the department of public works having recommended the establishment of a fifteen foot line between the points mentioned. The committee reported that fifteen foot line be established on North Willow street, north side, from Fairview street to North Willow street The report was adopted and the matter passed along to t.ae bureau of assessment ill that shape
 John Tato, the man whom the resi- dents of that street are endeavoring to crowd out, said he bought every foot Of his property and that he intends to use it, line or 10 line, unless somebody pays him for it.
 A communication was received from D. Il. T1erney favoring trolley sexten. sion and suggesting that the Oakyille trestle difference be adjusted by pay, ment of the city of 25 per cent of the cost. Evidently Mir Tierney is one of many good citizens who got off the track on account of the misstatements of the trolley extension committee, as his reference to alleged acts of the former administration would lead one to believe. All Mir Tierney thinks the city ought to pay is 25 per cents of the cost, while the former administra. tion was willing that the city should pay 45 per cent of the cost, 20 per cent more than Mir Tierney suggests. Whose treat Is this? Mir Tierney's communication was ordered on file. 1 The board adjourned for q week, and as the members were filing out Judge ! Cole and City Attorney Kellogg had q l lively tilt about building lines,
 I'll guarantee" said the judge, 1 "that everybody on Hillside avenue who appeals from the establishment will get damages. You can't deprive man of his property without paying him for it.''
 Mr Kellogg: five heard such guar antees before"
 AIr Cole: 'sWhenT,
 Mir Kellogg: "In your own case, for example We have Judgment of $450 against you.''
 MT Cole: Why don't you collect7" Mir Kellogg: We haven't done the work yet.''
 MT Cole: "Hold that Judgment until you get the money. Your own father, l General Kellogg, was the last to take l an appeal on the building line ques- tion and you know how the city fared. He got $1,OOO damages for Patrick McMahon, the butcher, and $4O0 for Tierney and Cooke. That puts a qui- etus on building lines in Waterbury for fifty years. Things must be uni form and equitable when you get into the courts, but anything goes when people submit tamely." 1 Mir Kellogg said he didn't have the cases referred to in mind.
 Judge Cole: "The idea of man then saying to his neighbor, you keep back fifteen feet lest your house dark ems my windows. You can't do 1t. People will learn their rights in this matter and when they do there will be the devil to pay. Everybody will be suing t.-e city"
 The following petitions were received and referred to the board of public works: Of George Tracy for water main and sewer In a new street. from Waterville street at the extension of Ridgewood street; of w. B. Reynolds for an electric | light on Long Hill roads or Lawrence l Tobin for an electric light on Dublin street, opposite the estate of John | Thompson; of F. G. Humphrey for q building line on Chestnut avenue. The . report of the bureau of assessment on I the benefits and damages arising from the layout of new street running easterly from Baldwin street to the Mulcahy school building, was adopted I and the grade and layout approved This was long time in hand. The grade was fixed year ago when levels I were, given for water main and sewer but 1t never was adopted until last night. It pays to bide ones time, for the thing went through without anybody inQuiring how the cart came to be put before the horse.