In re Strauss
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the City of New York and another from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and' entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Richmond on the 7th day of January, 1915, denying their application for the appointment of commissioners of appraisal herein.
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Appeal by the City of New York and another from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and' entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Richmond on the 7th day of January, 1915, denying their application for the appointment of commissioners of appraisal herein. The city of New York by its board of water supply in 1905 had prepared a map and profile of its Catskill aqueduct system extending from various reservoirs as proposed in the counties of Ulster, Sullivan, G-reene and Schoharie, and leading under the Hudson river to the city of New York, whence…
1Opinion of the Court
Putnam, J.:
The learned court at Special Term sustained the objection by the defending owners that the condemnation map of this particular water front had not been submitted for approval to the State Water Supply Commission.
The creation of the State Water Supply Commission (Laws of 1905, chap. 723), and that for the New York city water supply (Laws of 1905, chap. 724), as contemporaneous acts, are to be read together. (Matter of Board of Water Supply, 211 N. Y. 174, 181.) In connection with granting such right to municipalities, the State created a central commission to regulate taking…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- In Re the Board of Water Supply Ex Rel. City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1914
3Cited by2 opinions
- In re FordNew York Supreme Court · 1969
- Mulligan v. StraussAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1916