County of Queens v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The City of New York, from a judgment of the Supreme Court, in favor of the plaintiff and of the defendant, the County of Nassau, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Albany on the 16th day of September, 1899, upon the report of a. referee, and from an. order of the Supreme ’Court, made at the Albany Special Term, bearing date the 9th day of September, 1899, and' entered in said clerk’s office, confirming said report.
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Appeal by the defendant, The City of New York, from a judgment of the Supreme Court, in favor of the plaintiff and of the defendant, the County of Nassau, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Albany on the 16th day of September, 1899, upon the report of a. referee, and from an. order of the Supreme ’Court, made at the Albany Special Term, bearing date the 9th day of September, 1899, and' entered in said clerk’s office, confirming said report. This action was commenced against the city of New York in August, 1898, under the provisions of section 1588 of “ The Greater New York…
1Opinion of the Court
Merwin, J.:
The circumstance that in the formation of “The City of New York,” by chapter 378 of the Laws of 1897, only a portion of the territory of the county of Queens was taken into the new city, made it necessary to provide for an apportionment of the debt of the county, which, in its origin, was a charge upon the entire territory. Section 1588 of the act provides a method for accomplishing this apportionment. The use of the remedy there authorized has resulted in the judgment appealed from.
Upon the part of the appellant it is claimed : (1) That, after the passage of the Greater New York…
2Cited by1 opinion
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