In re City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Augustus Newbold Morris, as trustee of Eleanor C.. Morris, and others, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 18th day of February, 1903, confirming the report of the commissioners of estimate and assessment appointed in the above-entitled proceeding.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J.:
This proceeding was to condemn for public; use a piece of real property, known as the westerly half of pier 15 on the East river. The commissioners reported' that they had estimated this pier as a lawfully shedded pier, but' not entitled to be maintained as such perpetually; that the authority for the shedding of the pier was a license revocable by the lawfully constituted authorities of the city of New York; that the city of New York on taking proceedings to acquire title to the wharfage rights, terms, easements and emoltimqnts appurtenant to Pier Old No. 15, East river, not now…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Kingsland v. . Mayor, Etc., of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1888
3Cited by7 opinions
- In re Commissioner of Public WorksAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1909
- In re Piers, Old Nos. 19, 20, East RiverAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907
- In re City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1910
- In re the City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907
- In re City of New YorkNew York Supreme Court · 1906
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