People ex rel. Luckings v. Board of Railroad Commissioners
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 26th day of October, 1897, directed to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York, and to the individuals composing said board, commanding them to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of Albany all and singular their proceedings in denying the application of the relator for a reopening and rehearing of the petition of the Forty-second Street, Manhattan-ville and St.…
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Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 26th day of October, 1897, directed to the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York, and to the individuals composing said board, commanding them to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of Albany all and singular their proceedings in denying the application of the relator for a reopening and rehearing of the petition of the Forty-second Street, Manhattan-ville and St. Nicholas Avenue Railway Company for approval of a change of motor power in the operation of its line, from horse power to an…
1Opinion of the Court
Merwin, J.:
For several years prior to February,. 1897, there were four street railroad tracks on Amsterdam or Tenth avenue in the city of New York, two of which, the inner ones, were owned and operated by the Metropolitan Street Railway Company or Metropolitan Traction Company, and the other two by the Forty-Second Street, Manhattanville and St. Nicholas Avenue Railway Company. Horse power was used by both companies. In February, 1897, the Metropolitan Company, under the provisions of section 100 of the Railroad *70Law (Chap. 565, Laws of 1890), applied to the Board of Railroad Commissioners for…
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