People ex rel. Janes v. Stillings
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Cebtioeabi issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 21st day of ¡November, 1907, directed to William E. Stillings, chairman, and another, surviving commissioners, etc., commanding them to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of ¡New York all and singular their proceedings had in relation to the dismissal of a certain claim submitted to them, for want of jurisdiction.
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, J.:
The relator owns property lying between St. Ann’s avenue, Westchester avenue, Brook avenue and East One Hundred and Forty-ninth street in the borough of the Bronx, and tiled a claim for damages alleged to. have been caused to said property by the elevation of the grades of St. Ann’s avenue and Westchester avenue. The *649Port Morris branch of the Mew York and Harlem railroad passed under St. Ann’s and Westchester avenues at this point. The sole question involved is whether the change of grade damage commission has jurisdiction in the premises.
We have lately had occasion to consider the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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