US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

 
    §  5-370  Awards;  payment  of.  The comptroller, within four calendar
  months after the making and entry of the final decree, shall pay to  the
  respective  owners  and  bodies,  politic  or  corporate,  mentioned  or
  referred to in such decree, in whose favor any  sum  or  sums  of  money
  shall  be  determined, the respective sum or sums so determined in their
  favor respectively, with lawful interest thereon, from the date title to
  the real property vested. In case of neglect or default in  the  payment
  of  the  same  within  such  time,  the respective person or persons, or
  bodies, politic or corporate, in  whose  favor  the  same  shall  be  so
  determined,   his,   her   or  their  executors,  administrators,  legal
  representatives or successors, at any time or times,  after  application
  first  made by him, her or them to the comptroller, for payment thereof,
  may sue for and recover the same, with  such  lawful  interest  and  the
  costs  of  suit,  in  any  proper form of action against the city in any
  court having cognizance thereof, and in which it shall be sufficient  to
  declare  generally  for so much money due to the plaintiff or plaintiffs
  therein by virtue of this subchapter, for real estate taken or  affected
  for  the  purposes herein mentioned. The final decree, with proof of the
  right and title of the plaintiff  or  plaintiffs  to  the  sum  or  sums
  demanded  shall  be  conclusive  evidence  in  such  suit or action, and
  entitle plaintiff to judgment therein.