Orr v. . the City of Brooklyn
New York Court of Appeals
This is an action founded on the statute of this State, passed April 13, 1855, by which compensation was given to parties whose property was destroyed by mobs or riots by an action against the city or county in which the property was situated.
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This is an action founded on the statute of this State, passed April 13, 1855, by which compensation was given to parties whose property was destroyed by mobs or riots by an action against the city or county in which the property was situated. The action was against the city of Brooklyn, and the complaint alleged the destruction of the Plaintiff’s floating elevator, with its machinery, on the night of July 15, 1863, and that the elevator, at the time of its destruction, was in the Atlantic basin, in the Twelfth Ward of the city of Brooklyn. The question presented is, whether the locus in quo…
1Opinion of the CourtHunt, J.
At the time of its destruction the elevator was lying in the Atlantic basin. This basin is on the Brooklyn side of the East River, which separates the city and county of Hew York from the county of Kings and from the city of Brooklyn, which forms a portion of the latter county.
The East Biver is an arm of the sea, forming the westerly end of Long Island Sound, and connecting with New York hay and the Atlantic Ocean.
This basin is bounded on three sides by land, and on the fourth side is separated from the East Biver by piers, except for a space of about two hundred feet, which may be called the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Mahler v. Norwich & New York Transportation Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1866
- Luke v. City of BrooklynNew York Supreme Court · 1864
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