N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co. v. . City of Rochester

Prior to 1875, the city of Rochester constructed a sewer, extending from East avenue northerly through a street known as Upton park, which received the contents of several sewers lying westerly of and emptying into it. In 1875, the city constructed another sewer, beginning at a point in East avenue forty feet east of the west line of land then owned by Henry E. Hooker, extending easterly in said avenue about one-half mile to Culver street; thence northerly in that street about fifteen hundred feet to the land of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company where it discharged into…