In re the Assessments of Lands in the Town of Flatbush
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, affirming an order of Special Term, which set aside the report and assessment of commissioners of assessment, appointed under the act providing for the further extension of Prospect park in the city of Brooklyn (chap. 314, Laws of 1868), so far as they “ intended to lay an assessment upon property in the town of Flatbush.”
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, affirming an order of Special Term, which set aside the report and assessment of commissioners of assessment, appointed under the act providing for the further extension of Prospect park in the city of Brooklyn (chap. 314, Laws of 1868), so far as they “ intended to lay an assessment upon property in the town of Flatbush.” (Reported below, 2 Hun, 628.) The application to the Special Term was to confirm the report of said commissioners of assessment. By the report, the sum of $243,737 was laid and…
1Opinion of the CourtMiller, J.
This case involves the construction to be • placed upon the several acts of the legislature, relating to the selection and the establishment of Prospect park in the city of Brooklyn, and the question to be determined is, whether either or any of said acts authorize any assessment to be made *401of any portion of the expense of acquiring title, to and constructing said park upon lands situated in the town of Flat-bush which adjoins said city, and from the boundaries of which town a portion of the lands for said park was taken, and constituted a part of the territorial limits of the city of…
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