Birdsall v. . Clark
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon the report of a referee. (Reported below, 7 Hun, 351.) This was an action to restrain the defendants, the superintendent of streets of the city of Binghamton, and persons employed by him, from grading and repairing the sidewalk in front of certain premises owned by plaintiff in said city.
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon the report of a referee. (Reported below, 7 Hun, 351.) This was an action to restrain the defendants, the superintendent of streets of the city of Binghamton, and persons employed by him, from grading and repairing the sidewalk in front of certain premises owned by plaintiff in said city. The plaintiff was the owner of certain premises fronting on the north side of Court street, in the city of Binghampton. On the 29th of July, 1873, the common…
1Opinion of the Court
Church, Ch. J.
There is no question but that the common council had full power to ordain the grading and curbing of the sidewalk in front of the plaintiff’s premises, and that for any incidental or consequential injury the plaintiff had no remedy, upon the general principle that private interests are subordinate to the public good. By section 14 of title 8 of the charter of the city of Binghamton, the building and maintaining in good order of all sidewalks is to be done at the expense of the premises in front of which they are required, or of the owner thereof; and after providing that the…
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