Legal Opinion

In re Aldermen

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided July 1, 1903PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Appeal by The City of New York, the successor to the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 23d day of May, 1901, denying a motion to confirm the report of the commissioners of estimate and assessment, as returns the report of said commissioners for the purpose of having included therein awards for damages…

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Appeal by The City of New York, the successor to the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 23d day of May, 1901, denying a motion to confirm the report of the commissioners of estimate and assessment, as returns the report of said commissioners for the purpose of having included therein awards for damages to the buildings owned by persons objecting to said report.

1Opinion of the Court

Hatch, J.:

Pursuant to a resolution of the board of street opening and improvement, passed on the 21st day of October, 1895, directing the corporation counsel to take the necessary proceedings to acquire title to lands required for the opening of East One Hundred and Eighty-seventh street, a notice was duly published in the Oity Record on January 7, 1897, of an application to be made for the appointment of commissioners of estimate and assessment. Thereafter commissioners were duly appointed by an order entered in the clerk’s office of New York county on the 26th day of January, 1897. On the…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Matter of AdamsNew York Court of Appeals · 1894
  2. In re One Hundred & Sixteenth StreetAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1896
  3. In re Application of MayorAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
  4. In re Mayor, Aldermen & Commonalty of the City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901
  5. People ex rel. Murtaugh v. Board of AssessorsNew York Supreme Court · 1878

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Gray v. Salt Lake CityUtah Supreme Court · 1914
  2. Mellilo v. KrackeAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1941
  3. In re MayorAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
  4. In re Grant Ave.New York Supreme Court · 1915

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