Davis & Palmer v. Mayor of New York

The original complaint in this action, which Was brought to restrain the corporation from making a grant of a railroad to be laid in Broadway, is set forth at large in the report of the proceedings on an attachment against the members of the Common Council. (1 Duer, p, 450, 464.) It was subsequently amended by making Jacob Sharpe and his associates—the grantees of the corporation—parties defendants.

The cause was fried upon the amended pleadings before Mr, Justice Duke, in June, 1853; the examination of witnesses, and the arguments of counsel, occupying the whole of that special term. The…