The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07
LAST OBSTACLE REMOVED THAT
 BLOCKED DAM Conn. Light and Power Go. Gan Go Ahead With Big
 Project. MUST PAY VALUES FIXED BY APPRAISERS Can Proceed With Ponding
 Behind Gigantic
 Structure.

The last obstacle in the way of the Connecticut Light & Power Co.'S plan to inundate miles of the Housatonic valley by means of the $5,000,0O0 dam being constructed for it at Stew enson, was removed yesterday by decision of Judge Donald T. Warner in the Superior Court at New Haven granting a petition of the power com pany for the suspension of a stay Of execution effected by a, formal objec- ton by certain landowners to a com mittee previously appointed to ap- praise their property for the Superior court.
 The case is somewhat similar to that of the town of Southbury, whose appeal from the finding of S1O,OO0 by Judge Lucien F. Burpee as fair price for the so-ca1led River road in Southbury and Oxford, was disallow- ed by Judge Burpee last week on the ground that it was taken merely for the purpose of delaying the com pany's project. As a result of Judge Warmers action of yesterday, the power company will be free, upon payment of the amount for which the property of litigants is to be apprais- ed, to proceed with the bonding of water behind the gigantic dam on Novemb Der l., The dam will be used for the generation of electricity by water power and is expected to effect an annual saving of at least S1,000,-
 900 in coal.
 Appointment of the appraisal com mittee was made by Judge Warner several weeks ago. James T. Smith of Ansonia, Harrison Hewitt of New Ha- ven and Henry Beardsley of Newtown were named as members of the con- mittee, with instructions to determine Q fair valuation of the property of Nathaniel E. Kendryx of New Haven and others, including one Cassidy, Mo Carthy and Hamilton, needed by the power company to make possible the flooding of the area back of the great dam.
 i Through their lawyers, Judge Henry Stoddard of New Haven, the land owners appealed to the supreme court from the appointment of the commit tee, which constituted Q stay of execu- i ton against the power company, dur i ing the existence of which the com pany was restrained from inundating the land in question, which aibuts roads Interesting the so-called River road bought by the company for | $10,OO0.
 It was to have this stay of execu- 1 ton suspended so that the plans of | the company could be continued that 1 petition was made to Judge Warner. | A hearing on the matter was held yesterday in the superior court at 1 New Haven. and Judge Warner
 granted the petition as being proper | for the due administration of justice The appraisal committee will now
 be allowed to proceed with the ap- 1 praisal of the land in question and,
 upon reporting to the judge of the 1 court, the power company will be ex-
 pected to pay for the land at the fig
 ures repofted by the committee, If
 the litigants refuse to accept such sums as may be determined by the
 appraisal committee, the power
 company will have the alternative of paying the money to the treasurer of | New Haven county, in which the land 1 is situated and be free to proceed win the flooding of the territory of
 which the land is a part.
 At the same time yesterday, Judge
 Warner suspended stay of execution | brought about by an appeal by the | Town of Southbury from decision | of Judge Warner closing about five
 small roads in Southbury and Oxford l upon payment of a certain sum to l the towns by the power company.