People Ex Rel. N.Y., Etc., R.R. Co. v. . Willcox

This appeal demands our consideration of the jurisdiction of the respondents, who constitute the public service commission, for the first district of this state, to entertain, and to determine upon, a complaint by a citizen of the maintenance by a railroad corporation of a nuisance, in violation of the Sanitary Code of the charter of the city of New York. In August, 1909, there was presented to the commission, in behalf of the South Bronx Property Owners' Association, a complaint, which called the attention of the members. "to the unsanitary and offensive manner, in which the New York, New…