People ex rel. The Central Park, North & East River Railroad v. Willcox
New York Court of Appeals
Appeals in each of the above entitled proceedings from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered January 6, 1909, which denied it motion to vacate an order of Special Term directing the issuance of a writ of certiorari to review an order of the defendants directing the receivers of the Metropolitan Street Railroad system and the Central Park, North and East Rivet-Railroad Company to put into effect a system of universal…
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Appeals in each of the above entitled proceedings from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered January 6, 1909, which denied it motion to vacate an order of Special Term directing the issuance of a writ of certiorari to review an order of the defendants directing the receivers of the Metropolitan Street Railroad system and the Central Park, North and East Rivet-Railroad Company to put into effect a system of universal transfers between the lines running north and south on Manhattan island operated by the receivers and the Fifty-ninth…
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, Ch. J.
We affirm the order appealed from upon the opinion of Patterson, P. J., in the court below, but as a decision has recently been rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co. (211 U. S. 210), which the *386learned counsel for the appellants urges as decisive of this appeal, it becomes necessary to add a brief comment on that case. A majority of the justices of the Supreme Court held in the case cited that the action of the Virginia state corporation commission, created by the Constitution of that state, in fixing future rates of…
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- Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Trustees of the Village of Saratoga Springs v. Saratoga Gas, Electric Light & Power Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1908
- P.P. C.I.R.R. Co. v. . C.I. B.R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1894
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- Hazeltine Research, Inc. v. De Wald Radio Mfg. Corp.New York Supreme Court · 1948
- Skating Vanities Co. v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 1953
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