People & Taylor v. Mayor of New York
New York Supreme Court
An injunction was granted, and a receiver of the rents and profits of the premises, the title to which was the subject of this action, appointed in July, 1858, at a special term. The facts of the case are fully stated in the report of that and other proceedings in the cause, 8 Ante, 7. The Corporation appealed from the order for an injunction and a receiver*
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.*—Mullen, J.
The People of the State granted to the city of Blew York the right to erect piers on a strip of land lying westerly of the city limits, and to receive the income thereof. In process of time these piers became filled up so as to render them unfit for the uses for which they were constructed, and the city proceeded and filled up said piers¿ to the same level with the adjoining upland, and on it erected a temporary building for a market, adjoining Washington Market, and rented said building and the lands adjoining to marketmen for weekly rents. The filling up was done in…
2Cited by1 opinion
- Whyte v. SpransyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1902