Le Roy v. Mayor of New-York
New York Supreme Court
A WRIT of certiorari was issued, directed to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the city of New-York, returnable in August term, 1820. The certiorari recited, that the Corporation of New-York, by virtue of the “ Act to reduce the several laws relative to the city of New-York, into one statute,” passed April 9, 1813, (2 N. R. L. 342— 490.) had caused a common sewer to be made in Canal-J street, in the said city, from Washington-street to Collect-street, for the purpose of…
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A WRIT of certiorari was issued, directed to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the city of New-York, returnable in August term, 1820. The certiorari recited, that the Corporation of New-York, by virtue of the “ Act to reduce the several laws relative to the city of New-York, into one statute,” passed April 9, 1813, (2 N. R. L. 342— 490.) had caused a common sewer to be made in Canal-J street, in the said city, from Washington-street to Collect-street, for the purpose of receiving, the water from a. large an(^ extensive district, or section of the city, (particularly described,) and…
1Opinion of the Court · NessVan Ness, J.
The objects of this application, as stated in the notice of the plaintiffs, are, 1. That the return on file be taken off the file. 2. That the rule entered to assign errors, be vacated for irregularity. 3. For a rule that the defendants make a further return, in the following particulars: (1) That the defendants set forth, state, and describe the district or section of the city of JYew-York, and the bounds and limits of the said district or section of the said city, from which the water runs, and is received, or, by the permanent or the existing regulation thereof, is to run and be received…
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