Griswold Airport, Inc. v. Town of Madison

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• airport brought action pursuant to § 12-119, claiming that assessment was \manifestly excessive\
• “[i]t is a well-settled principle of [statutory] construction that specific terms covering [a] given subject matter will prevail over general language of . . . another statute which might otherwise prove controlling” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• improper change in classification, and resulting eightfold increase in assessment, manifestly excessive

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