2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 13a-52. No assessed damages collected if unopened highway discontinued.

      Sec. 13a-52. No assessed damages collected if unopened highway discontinued. When any highway duly laid out is legally discontinued before being opened and worked, no action shall be brought to recover damages assessed therefor, but the owner of the lands over which it is laid out may recover of the town, city or borough his actual damages from its layout.

      (1949 Rev., S. 2163; 1958 Rev., S. 13-36; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 52.)

      History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.

      But for this section, damages assessed could be recovered, though highway was discontinued before it was opened and worked. 39 C. 113. Abandonment of uncompleted proceedings to lay out street gives no right to damages, unless there be inexcusable delay. 48 C. 68. Cited. 158 C. 280.