People ex rel. Dexter v. Hosier
New York Supreme Court
Certiorari to review the proceedings of the commissioner of highways of the town of Waverly, in laying out a public highway in said town across the lands of relator.
1Opinion of the CourtLearned, P. J.
The statutes which have to be considered in this case are a flagrant specimen of careless and ignorant legislation. A highway system was established by the Revised Statutes. Chapter 431, Laws 1875, amended section 60, art. 4, tit. 1, c. 16,1 Rev. St., and began by calling it “section 75.” Chapter 114, Laws 1880, exempted from the provisions of the aforesaid amendatory act all towns whose real estate is assessed, as shown by their last assessment rolls, at an average price of less than five dollars per acre; and it provided a very summary mode of laying out highways in such towns. The…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- People Ex Rel. Cook v. NearingNew York Court of Appeals · 1863
3Cited by1 opinion
- Dexter v. AlfredNew York Supreme Court · 1892