In re Mayor
New York Supreme Court
On the fourth of June, 1851, a resolution was passed by the common council of the city of Eew-York, that Wall-street, on the northerly side, between Broadway and Eassau-street, be widened four feet, and that the counsel to the corporation take the necessary.legal measures therefor; except, that -until June 1, 1860, the building on the corner of Eassau-street should not be, required to be taken down.
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On the fourth of June, 1851, a resolution was passed by the common council of the city of Eew-York, that Wall-street, on the northerly side, between Broadway and Eassau-street, be widened four feet, and that the counsel to the corporation take the necessary.legal measures therefor; except, that -until June 1, 1860, the building on the corner of Eassau-street should not be, required to be taken down. On the fifth of July, 1851, an order was made by the supreme court, on the petition of the corporation, appointing commissioners of estimate and assessment, and describing the widening, without…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Mitchell J.
On the 4th of June, 1851, & resolution of the corporation of ISTew-York was approved by the mayor, which directed that Wall-street, on the northerly side, *637between. Broadway and Nassau street, be widened four feet, except that until June 1,1860, the building or any part of it on the corner of Wall and Nassau streets, on the north side of Wall-street'should not be required by the corporation tobe taken down, but that the same should remain until that date as it was at the date of the resolution. In July of the same year a petition was presented, under the corporate seal…
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