Matter of Hunter

Hpon deciding the appeal in this matter we held that a strip of land in the city of Albany, which for years had been thrown open by the owner to public use, had been designated by him as Rawson street and had been generally known and used as a highway under that name, became one of the streets of the city upon the passage of an ordinance by the common council directing the construction of a sewer therein, and referring to it as a street eo nomine. (Matter of Hun ter, 163 N. Y. 542.) We are now asked by this motion to consider the effect of a section of the. city charter which provides that “…