City of Little Falls v. State

These claims were tried together. Claimant, a municipal corporation, in a communication to its mayor dated October 22, 1938, was advised by the State that the greater part of Mohawk street in the city of Little Falls would be required for widening the Barge canal, and claimant was thereby requested to abandon such area for street purposes and informed that, upon its abandonment, the lands would be acquired by appropriation proceedings. On October 27, 1938, the common council of claimant adopted a resolution expressing claimant’s willingness and intention to abandon the lands for street…