People ex rel. Urban Water Supply Co. v. Connolly
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, Urban Water Supply Company, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 19th day of August, 1914, denying its motion for a writ of mandamus, and also from an order made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 14th day of September, 1914, denying relator’s motion for leave to renew its…
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Appeal by the relator, Urban Water Supply Company, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 19th day of August, 1914, denying its motion for a writ of mandamus, and also from an order made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 14th day of September, 1914, denying relator’s motion for leave to renew its application for a writ of mandamus herein, or for a reargument of its first application.
1Opinion of the Court
Carr, J.:
The relator is a water supply company, incorporated under section 80 of the Transportation Corporations Law (Gen. Laws, *165chap. 40 [Laws of 1890, chap. 566], as amd. by Laws of 1892, chap. 617; now Consol. Laws, chap. 63; Laws of 1909, chap. 219), to furnish for public and private use a,water supply in the town of North Hempstead, Nassau county. It was incorporated in 1906. In 1907, under the appropriate statutory requirements, it acquired a source of water supply in the adjoining county of Queens, in the second ward of the borough of Queens, formerly the old town of Newtown. In 1911…
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- People Ex Rel. Braeburn Ass'n v. . HankingNew York Court of Appeals · 1913
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