New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad v. Village of New Rochelle

On the 3d day of August, 1892, the defendant, a municipal corporation organized under the laws of this State, through its trustees entered into a contract in writing with the plaintiff containing the following provisions:

I. “ Said village, for the considerations hereinafter expressed, assents to discontinuances as public highways of (1) so much of Harrison street in said village as is bounded on both sides by land *196of said company; (2) so much of Webster avenne in said village as lies between the southeasterly line of the Harlem River and Portchester Railroad, as now laid out, and the main…