Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-19
PAUL PELOQU|N AWARDED $500
Special Committee Appointed to Estimate and Assess Dam ages Sustained by Property Holders Through South Street Layout Announces Fmdng--Report Will be Sub mitted to Common Council

The special committee appointed to estimate and assess damages sustain ed by property holders through the. South street layout, and comprising Lee Roy Robbins, J. D. Haviland and Gilbert s. Raymond, in a finding al- nounced on Monday have awarded Paul Peloquin $500. No award was made to. Addison M Redwood. The report will be submitted to the court of common council.
 The committee report follows:
 To His Honor the Mayor of the City of
 Norwich, Connecticut, and to The
 Honorahle Court of Common Coufi-
 ci1s of said City, Greetings:
 Your servants, being the special; committee appointed and qualified to. estimate and assess the damages sus- tained by Addison M. Redwood of tke town of Franklin, Connecticut, and by Paul Peloquin of said Norwich re- spectively to their immediate and re- maining .abutting property, or interest therein, by reason of the laying ont and widening of South street. 50 call ed, in said city of Norwich as $ pub lie highway, over. across and by their property all as appears in the records of the Court of Common Council and of said city, respectfully make and tender their report as follows:
 Copies of the notice attached acre to were caused to be served upon the parties in interest as appears by the returns of the city sheriff, under date l of February 21, 1918, entered thereon and made a part hereof.
 Two days later, accompanied by Corporation Counsel Herman Alofsin, City Engineer Shepard B. Palmer. Paisl | Peloquin and Attorney Joseph T. Fan- 1 ming, your committee viewed the premises involved and made d care | ful examination Of the physical eon- !, ditions there existing and aequaiit | ed themselves with the extent of the l proposed lay out and changes md their respective relations to each interest and to the property i'll its entirety as well as with the reelative proportion. I and values of all land and buildings I affected rs
 sIn accordance with said notice be fore mentioned full hearing was llat
 beginning on the evening of February 27, 1918, and continued upon adjourn nlel1t to the evening of March 9th ad1t thence by adjournment to March f1tl following when your commissioner. l having heard all parties in interes | who cared to appear in person or b.
 counsel and avail themselves of tn opportunity together with eleven dis l interested witnesses and giving dui
 regard to the. request of said .Addisol
 M. Redwood wherein he waived ant assigned the assessment of any dam
 age to his interest to said Paul Pei
 oquin as more fully appears by in
 strument of such tenor hereto at
 tached and made a part hereof an,
 having made careful inquiry and stud
 of the merits of the many claims am
 contentious in the premises, afte thoughtful fdeliberation. arrived at tn
 following estimate of damages:
 e Award.
 1 To Addison M Redwood ....$ 5000
 To Paul Peloquin .......... 300
 Statement.
 South street. so-caIled, is situated a
 Thamesville about four hundred fee south of and paralell to ShippinI l street.
 1 The proposed lay out of this prfvat
 way for public street practically in , corporates it as now existing and in l dicated as four hundred and eighty
 nine feet long and twenty nine fee six inches wide. This way or stree runs at a right angle from Yves | ey, the joint interest of which is i
 Addison M. Redwood, Paul Pelo quin and The Chelsea Savings banl
 to the right of way of the New Lon
 don Northern Railway. Company an
 embraces about fourteen thousan i eight hundred square feet of Ian, , Other proprietors with land borderin on said way arc the estate of Jame B. shannon that holds title to stri ; bounded thereon for about one nun dred and thirty seven feet from tn l intersection of the southerly line { , South street with West Thames stree ]. and the Winchester WooIef1 tyo1ffnan l l that, now owns the so-called "C,ransto $ Press Works first bounded southerl l l for about two hundred and fifteen fet :. by the ''southerly line" of said Sout $ street. <. f :. The Redwood -Peloauia holdin t generally recognized and ackn nowieds : ed as the Peloquin property, is char l cd as comprising two rectangular 10
 (exclusive of said South street) ,tf l first of which lies between Shfppir
 and South streets with West Tharnl
 street westerly and the Cranston Pre-