Negus v. City of Brooklyn
New York Supreme Court
Motion by plaintiff to continue the injunction enjoining the common council from passing over the mayor’s veto the resolution changing the route of the Bruff railway.
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, J.
— The Elevated Bailway Company, defendant, was incorporated by an act passed May 26,1814. The authority *293conferred upon it to appropriate the streets in the city is contained in section 3 of that act, and is as follows: (Here the route is recited as fixed between the East river, Suspension Bridge and Woodhaven, Queens county), the latter part of the act reading thus: “ Or on such streets and avenues as may be named by the mayor and common council of the city of Brooklyn, as being more suitable for carrying out the objects contemplated in the erection of said railway.” The common council claim…
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