People ex rel. Baird v. Nixon
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Motion by the defendants, Lewis Nixon and others, for a new trial made upon a case containing exceptions, ordered to be heard at the Appellate Division in the first instance, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court after a trial at the Kings County Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J.:
On May 27, 1895, an act was passed for.the construction of a permanent suspension bridge over the East river, between the cities of New York and Brooklyn (Chap. 789, Laws of 1895). By this statute the mayors of the cities of New York and Brooklyn were each to appoint three persons, who, with' the mayors were constituted a commission for the purpose of constructing .the bridge. The relators were appointed as such commissioners. On January 19, 1898, the mayor of the present city of New York removed the relators and appointed the defendants commissioners in their stead. This is an…
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- Walsh v. Trustees of New York & Brooklyn BridgeNew York Court of Appeals · 1884
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