In re the Commissioners of Palisades Interstate Park
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Separate appeals by Haverstraw Crushed Stone Company and another from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Westchester Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Rockland on the 30th day of October, 1914, granting a motion of the Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park for leave to discontinue these condemnation proceedings and setting aside part of an order of the Special Term made on the 16th day of January, 1914, which had confirmed…
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Separate appeals by Haverstraw Crushed Stone Company and another from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Westchester Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Rockland on the 30th day of October, 1914, granting a motion of the Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park for leave to discontinue these condemnation proceedings and setting aside part of an order of the Special Term made on the 16th day of January, 1914, which had confirmed the report of the commissioners of appraisement herein. The order appealed from imposed terms upon the granting of this…
1Opinion of the Court
Putnam, J.:
These appeals raise the question of the power of the 'petitioner to discontinue condemnation proceedings. The Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park are a body created by Laws of 1900, chapter 170, as amended by Laws of 1901, chapter 504; Laws of 1906, chapter 691; Laws of 1910, chapter 361.*
On August 2, 1912, the present proceedings were begun to condemn the fee in certain lands in Eockland county and the leasehold interests of these two appellants. On September 16, 1913, awards were made for the damages to these interests, and on January 16, 1914, the awards were…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Garrison v. City of New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
- Lent v. New York & Massachusetts Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1892
- Matter of Rhinebeck Connecticut R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1876
- In re the Petition of Mayor of New-YorkNew York Supreme Court · 1822
- Hawkins v. Trustees of RochesterNew York Supreme Court · 1828
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Matter of City of SyracuseNew York Court of Appeals · 1918
- Bunyan v. Commissioners of Palisades Interstate ParkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1915
- In re Commissioners of Palisades Interstate ParkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1915