Strong v. Pyrke

This proceeding is in certiorari instituted by the claimant to review an award of compensation by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Markets for the destruction of some 10,000 red cedar trees pursuant to a statute which declared those trees in certain localities to be a public nuisance and actually injurious to the given fruiting apple district established by virtue of the provisions of chapter 854 of the Laws of 1923. The amount of the award was $2,500, which the petitioner claims to be grossly inadequate. The trees thus destroyed were situated on a tract of land owned by him and located…