Buffalo Valley Realty Co. v. State of N.Y.

Claimant owned a parcel of land in the town of Elma, consisting of approximately fifty-eight acres, bounded on the west by the center line of Bowen road. Adjoining that land on the south was a parcel likewise bounded by the center line of Bowen road, owned by Herbert B.. Lee, treasurer of claimant corporation. On May 2,1929, the Public Service Commission approved by order the description and map of certain lands required in a grade crossing elimination. In such a proceeding, the statute, Grade Crossing Elimination Act (Laws of 1928, ch. 678), section 6, specifies the procedure whereby the…