Reis v. . City of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of tlie Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered June 8, 190G, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term and granting a new trial. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of tlie Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered June 8, 190G, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term and granting a new trial. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The resolution of the board of estimate and apportionment, directing that Hawthorne street between Kingston and Albany avenues,, he stricken from the official map, did not effect a legal closing of that portion of the street. (Matter of Rhinelander, 68 N.…
1Opinion of the CourtWillard Bartlett, J.
In order to understand this case, reference must be had to that portion of the official map of the borough of Brooklyn on which appear six city blocks, three on each side of Hawthorne street, between Troy avenue on the east and Brooklyn avenue on the west. Two of these blocks lie between Troy avenue and Albany avenue ; two of them (the middle ones) lie between Albany avenue and Kingston avenue, and the third pair lie between Kingston avenue and Brooklyn avenue. The city of Hew York owns all the lots which abut on Hawthorne street in the two middle blocks, that is to say, the blocks between…
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