Legal Opinion
In re Steinmann
New York Supreme Court
Decided May 15, 1923PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtCropsey, J.
Petitioner seeks a mandamus order requiring the board of assessors to estimate damage done to her building by virtue of the change in grade of the street upon which it fronts. The assessors have refused to make such an award for the reason that the city has already paid such damages to a prior owner.
The facts are not in dispute. The building was erected about 1893 in conformity to the then grade of the street. About 1913 *846the city filed a grade chart, whereby the grade of that street was changed and a grade four feet higher than the grade which had previously existed was established. Sometime…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Radcliff's Executors v. . Mayor, C. of BrooklynNew York Court of Appeals · 1850
- Sauer v. City of New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1907
- Matter of Crane v. . CraigNew York Court of Appeals · 1921
- People Ex Rel. Janes v. . DickeyNew York Court of Appeals · 1912
- In re MayorAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
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- Grigg Hanna Lumber & Box Co. v. State Highway CommissionerMichigan Supreme Court · 1940