Legal Opinion

City of New York v. Hudson & Manhattan Railroad

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided June 13, 1919PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Submission of a controversy upon an agreed statement of facts pursuant to section 1279 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

1Opinion of the Court

Clarke, P. J.:

The defendant is a railroad corporation organized and existing pursuant to the laws of the States of New York and New Jersey formed by an agreement of consolidation between the New York and Jersey Eailroad Company, the Hudson and Manhattan Eailroad Company and the Hoboken and Manhattan Eailroad Company.

The board of rapid transit railroad commissioners for the city of New York by a certificate dated February 2, 1905, granted to the said New York and Jersey Eailroad Company in perpetuity the right and franchise to lay down, construct and operate its road from the intersection of…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Co. v. Illinois ex rel. Drainage CommissionersSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
  2. People v. . O'BrienNew York Court of Appeals · 1888
  3. People Ex Rel. Metropolitan Street Railway Co. v. State Board of Tax CommissionersNew York Court of Appeals · 1903
  4. Lord v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United StatesNew York Court of Appeals · 1909
  5. City of Rochester v. . Rochester Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1905

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3Cited by2 opinions

  1. People ex rel. Delaney v. Interborough Rapid Transit Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1920
  2. People ex rel. City of New York v. Belt Line Railway Corp.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1920

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