Coles v. Trustees of the Village
New York Supreme Court
This is a case of certiorari, to review the proceedings of the trustees of the village of Williamsburgh in the opening of a street.
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This is a case of certiorari, to review the proceedings of the trustees of the village of Williamsburgh in the opening of a street. The village was incorporated by an act of the legislature, passed the 14th April, 1827. Laws of 1827, p. 270. By the 19 th section, of which it was made the duty of the trustees of the village to cause, as soon as conveniently might be, a survey of the village to be made, together with a map thereof exhibiting the streets, roads and alleys to he permanently laid out, and also the gradations and regulations which woidd be required in such streets, and accompanied…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Nelson, J.
The principal ground relied on for a reversal of the proceedings is, that the trustees of the village of Williamsburgh were not authorized, under the circumstances of this case, to grant the prayer of the petition presented for opening, pitching and regulating First street in that village, nor to open, pitch and regulate the same.
By the 19th section of the act incorporating the village, it was provided that the trustees, and all acting under them, should be empowered to enter in the day time into and upon any lands and tenements which they should deem necessary to be…
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