In re the Laying Out & Opening Ludlow Street
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad ‘Company from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Westchester Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the •county of Westchester on the 29th day of May, 1899, confirming "the report of commissioners appointed to assess the expense and "benefits upon the various parcels of land affected by the proposed laying out and opening of Ludlow street in the city of Yonkers.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
This is a proceeding conducted in conformity with the provisions <of the charter of Yonkers to lay out and open a-street in that city. *318(Laws of 1895, chap. 635, tit. 7.) The petition, praying that the street should be laid out across the. steam surface railroad of the appellant, was presented to the common council of Yonkers on November 23, 1896. That body did not resolve that the improvement should be made until April 11, 1898. Meantime the Legislature had enacted the statute commonly known as the Grade Crossing Law, which took effect on July 1, 1897. (Laws of 1897,…
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