Mayne v. Nassau Electric Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, the Nassau Electric Railroad Company and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 20th day of April, 1911, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Kings County Special Term.
1Per curiam
We think that this case was well decided at Special Term, and that in view of the opinion of Putnam, J., who presided, any extended discussion is unnecessary. It may be quite true that the plaintiff as a mere abutter had no cause of action when the railroad was laid down and when its working began, and we may concede safely that the value of the fee of the street in front of that abutter’s premises might have been nominal to the separate owner thereof, and yet it would not follow that when the abutter had acquired that fee and thereupon presented.himself to a court of equity as an abutter who…
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- Koehler v. New York Elevated RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1899
- Townsend v. . BellNew York Court of Appeals · 1901
- Chanler v. New York Elevated RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
- de St. Laurent v. SlaterAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
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- In re the City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1914
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