Adirondack Railway Co. v. New York State
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OP NEW YORK. This was a writ of error to a judgment of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York affirming a final judgment of the Supreme Court of New York perpetually enjoining the Adirondack Railway Company from taking certain lands by condemnation proceedings.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OP NEW YORK. This was a writ of error to a judgment of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York affirming a final judgment of the Supreme Court of New York perpetually enjoining the Adirondack Railway Company from taking certain lands by condemnation proceedings. The People of the State of New York brought the action and obtained judgment at a ■special term of the Supreme Court, which was reversed by the Appellate Division, 39 App. Div. 34, whose order was in turn reversed by the Court of Appeals, and the original- judgment affirmed. 160 N. Y.…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
The Court of Appeals ruled that on the record it must be presumed that all the facts warranted by the evidence and necessary to support the judgment were found by the. courts below; that it was to be assumed that the condemnation ■proceedings' instituted by the forest preserve board were fully completed as required by the statute of 1897 before proceedings to condemn on its part were commenced by the railroad' company; and that, thereby, if the condemnation act under which the board proceeded was valid, title to the strip. of land in question passed to the State, became a part of the forest…
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