People ex rel. Crane v. Adam
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 22d day of September, 1902, directed to Robert B. Adam and others, as grade crossing commissioners of the city of Buffalo,, requiring them to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of Erie all and singular their proceedings had in refusing to grant the petition of the relator to make application for the appointment of commissioners to appraise the damages alleged to have been sustained by her…
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Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 22d day of September, 1902, directed to Robert B. Adam and others, as grade crossing commissioners of the city of Buffalo,, requiring them to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of Erie all and singular their proceedings had in refusing to grant the petition of the relator to make application for the appointment of commissioners to appraise the damages alleged to have been sustained by her in consequence of the change of grade of Seneca and Peabody streets, in the city of Buffalo, under the direction of…
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
The petitioner is the life tenant of a lot at the intersection of Peabody and Seneca streets in the city of Buffalo. The premises have a frontage on Peabody street of one hundred and fifty, and on Seneca street of twenty-eight feet, and there are two frame cottages upon the lot. In the construction of a viaduct on Seneca street the grade in front of these premises was changed on both of these streets.
The ascent to the viaduct on Seneca street commences twenty, two and two-tenths feet easterly from the westerly lot line on Peabody street, and in that distance the elevation is one…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Matter of Grade Crossing CommissionersNew York Court of Appeals · 1901
- Myer v. AdamAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901
- Matter of Grade Crossing CommissionersNew York Court of Appeals · 1898
- People ex rel. Myer v. AdamAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1902