Matter of Exchange Alley

The judgment of the court {King, J. absent,) was pronounced by

Slidell, J.

This proceeding has been conducted in an extremely dilatory and unsatisfactory manner; and the result has been a judgment affecting the rights of the appellant Dussuau without his presence, and, so far as we can judge by the' record, without a proper opportunity afforded to him of being heard.

A report had been filed by the commissioners, which was opposed ; and, on the 24th April, 1846, a judgment was signed referring back the report to the commissioners, twenty days being allowed to them to make a new report. No report…