People ex rel. City of New York v. Hennessy
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Cross writs of certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 21st day of July, 1911, and the 5th day of October, 1911, respectively, directed to Joseph P. Hennessy and others, constituting the board of assessors of the city of New York, commanding them to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of New York all and singular their proceedings had in awarding damages to Jordan L. Mott in consequence of the change of grade of Third avenue…
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Cross writs of certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 21st day of July, 1911, and the 5th day of October, 1911, respectively, directed to Joseph P. Hennessy and others, constituting the board of assessors of the city of New York, commanding them to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of New York all and singular their proceedings had in awarding damages to Jordan L. Mott in consequence of the change of grade of Third avenue resulting from the construction of the northerly approach to the Third Avenue bridge.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
The relator, Jordan L. Mott, owns a plot of land measuring 612 feet on Third avenue, 352 feet on the Harlem river and 710 feet on the Mott Haven canal in the borough of the Bronx in the city of New York. Upon this plot are buildings used for many years for foundry and iron working business. In the year 1890 an act of Congress* was passed requiring the replacement of the existing bridges over 'the Harlem river by new bridges having a clear space of twenty-four feet above high tide, and in 1892 the Legislature of this State passed an act providing for the construction of a new Thud…
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