Huffmire v. City of Brooklyn
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The City of Brooklyn, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 17th day of June, 1897, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 17th day of June, 1897, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
The action is brought to recover damages resulting to the plaintiffs’ oyster beds in Jamaica bay from a deposit of sewage. The plaintiffs, residents of Flatlands, were engaged in the ¡Wanting and growth of oysters, on oyster beds in'Mill creek, in Jamaica. Under chapter 734:, Laws of 1868, the plaintiffs, in 1882, received from the-town authorities a permit entitling them exclusively to the oyster beds in question, and under this permit, and by virtue of the said law, they had planted and raised oysters for market, and this they continued to do until after the acts set out in…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Pumpelly v. Green Bay Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1872
- Transportation Co. v. ChicagoSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
- Seifert v. . City of BrooklynNew York Court of Appeals · 1886
- Noonan v. . City of AlbanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1880
- Merritt v. . EarleNew York Court of Appeals · 1864
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