Legal Opinion
In re Opening Edgecomb Road
New York Supreme Court
Decided October 15, 1901Published
Hearing upon objections to report of commissioners of estimate and assessment, and upon motion to confirm report as to certain awards.
1Opinion of the CourtBischoff, J.
The main dispute relates to the awards of the-commissioners designated as damage numbers 12 to 52, objection to the confirmation of these awards being raised both by the city and by various property-owners who are assessed for the improvement.
The lots abutting on the street at this point formed a part of what is known as the Jumel tract, and the street itself, in width eighty feet, takes its course over a strip, one hundred feet wide, which was subject to a right of way in favor of purchasers of a great number of lots laid out and described with reference to a certain map made for the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Matter of City of BuffaloNew York Court of Appeals · 1877
- City of Buffalo v. . PrattNew York Court of Appeals · 1892
- In re the Commissioners of the Central ParkNew York Supreme Court · 1872
- In re One Hundred & Seventy-Third StreetNew York Supreme Court · 1894
- In re MayorAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1900