Utica Gas & Electric Co. v. Sherman

This proceeding is under the Condemnation Law. Nearly a year was consumed in dilatory motions and in one appeal to this court, before defendants were finally brought to the unavoidable necessity of answering the amended petition. For the most part defendants were successful in those matters only in the sense of the delay secured thereby. Defendants’ time to answer expired September 2, 1924. They had notice of that fact by the service of an order by mail on August 20, 1924, received August 22, 1924, overruling their objections to the amended petition. No request was made either for a…