People ex rel. Karl v. United Traction Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relators, George Karl and another, .from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Rensselaer Special Term and .entered in the office of the clerk .of the county of Albany on the 30th day of July, 1910; denying the relators’ motion for a writ of-mandamus compelling the respondent to reconstruct its street railway to the village of'West Albany in Albany county, New York.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, P. J,:
The Albany Railway was incorporated in' 1863 under the General Railroad Act of 1850. Its charter designates its route through certain streets of the city of Albany ‘ ‘ and the highway to the village of West Albany. ” West Albany ⅛ án unincorporated village and is separated from.Albany by the tracks and yards of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company. In 1863 the common council of the.city of Albany passed a resolution giving the Albany Railway permission to construct its line through the streets.of Albany to the village .of West Albany. In 1872 the Albany Railway…
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