In re Acquiring Title to Titus Street
New York Supreme Court
Motion for an order or mandate to compel the comptroller of the city of New York to pay interest upon the amount of an award from the date of the order confirming a former award from which an appeal was taken and the order reversed.
1Opinion of the CourtKapper, J.
The petitioner was awarded in a street opening proceeding an inadequate sum for the taking of land, which award was reversed on appeal (Matter of City of New York (Titus Street), 139 App. Div. 238), and upon a hearing before new commissioners a largely increased award *621was made, upon which sum the petitioner claims interest from the date of the first report, contending that, under the Greater New York charter (§ 990), as the taking of an appeal from the order of confirmation shall not affect the vesting of title in the city and which vesting takes place "upon the confirmation of the report by…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- In Re the Trustees of the New York & Brooklyn Bridge to Acquire Lands of ClarkNew York Court of Appeals · 1893
- In re the City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1910
- Hudson River Telephone Co. v. City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1914
- In re Opening Belmont StreetAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908