Legal Opinion

In re Acquiring Title to an Unnamed Street

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided March 8, 1912PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Appeal by the Comptroller of the City of New York from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 8th day of January, 1912, resettling an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 16th day of November, 1911, granting a peremptory writ of mandamus. '

1Opinion of the Court

McLaughlin, J.:

The city of New York, in the above proceeding, acquired title on June 1, 1906, to certain lands for street purposes, and on October 5, 1910, the commissioners of estimate and assessment filed their report, which awarded the respondents $21,300 as damages for land taken, and $5,552.20, the interest thereon from the date the title vested in the city to the date of the report, amounting in all to $26,852.20. An assessment was imposed of $37,260.72 for benefits upon other lands of the respondents lying contiguous to that taken. On January 5, 1911, the report was confirmed by an…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. In re Bankers Investing Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1910
  2. In re City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1904
  3. In re Jackson Steinway Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1910

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Matter of NunezNew York Court of Appeals · 1919
  2. In re JonesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1917
  3. In re NunezNew York Supreme Court · 1917

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