Interborough Rapid Transit Co. v. City of New York

The action is to permanently restrain the defendants from removing certain additions to the elevated railway stations consisting of, first, extensions of the station platforms to adjoining buildings at Fourteenth, Eighteenth, Twenty-third and Thirty-third streets and Sixth avenue, and, second, bridges crossing the street and connecting north and south bound stations at Rector and Cortlandt streets. The board of estimate - and apportionment directed their removal on the ground that they constituted an illegal and unauthorized use of the public streets. The defendants do not dispute the…