Buell v. Trustees of Lockport

This cause has once been passed upon by the Court oi Appeals. (3 Comst., 197.)

The court now held, that the record of the judgment pronounced by the President of the Board of Trustees in favor of the plaintiffs, for the amount awarded to them by the jury for the value • of their land appropriated by the defendants for a street, was conclusive upon both parties, provided the defendants had jurisdiction to appropriate the land and cause the assessment to be made. [This conclusion disposed of nearly all the objections made by the defendants, not bearing upon the question of jurisdiction.)

*62That the…