Section 5-370. Awards; payment of  


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  • 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.