Manhattan Railway Co. v. Meighan
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
. Appeal by the defendant, Catharine Meighan, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Bronx Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Bronx on the 31st day of October, 1918, granting petitioner’s motion to discontinue this proceeding as to one parcel known as No. 3000 Third avenue in the city of New York.
1Opinion of the Court
Page, J.:
This proceeding was instituted by the presentation of a petition to the court wherein, among others, Catharine Meighan, Michael C. Gross,' 'Elizabeth Betz and the heirs at law of Peter Worms were named as defendants for a condemnation by right of eminent domain of the easements in the street, taken for the purpose of enlarging and extending petitioner’s elevated railroad by the construction of a third track.
The exhibits annexed to and made a part of the petition specify the parcel under consideration as the fifth parcel and describe the same by metes and bounds and set forth the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Meighan v. RoheAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1915
- Meighan v. . RoheNew York Court of Appeals · 1915