People Ex Rel. Janes v. . Stillings
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered April 14,1909, which dismissed a writ of certiorari and affirmed the proceedings of the defendant commissioners in dismissing the relator’s claim for want of jurisdiction.
1Per curiam
But a single question is involved in this
appeal. The relator’s intestate was the owner ■ of certain lands in the 23rd ward of the city of New York, formerly "in the town of Morrisania, Westchester county, which was annexed to the city in 1874. Before the annexation the grades of the streets and avenues on which the intestate’s lands abutted had been established by the commission constituted under chapter 841 of the Laws of 1868. By chapter 721 of the Laws of 1887 jurisdiction was conferred on the department of public parks of the city to change the location and grades of the streets and…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Radcliff's Executors v. . Mayor, C. of BrooklynNew York Court of Appeals · 1850
- People Ex Rel. Purdy v. . FitchNew York Court of Appeals · 1895
3Cited by3 opinions
- People Ex Rel. Janes v. . DickeyNew York Court of Appeals · 1912
- Burrell v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1914
- In re VarianAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1912