City of Little Falls v. State
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The State of New York, from an order and judgment of the Court of Claims in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of said court on the 28th day of May, 1920, awarding damages to the claimant for appropriation of property by the State in the construction of the Barge canal.
1Opinion of the Court
Davis, J.:
In the construction of the Barge canal through the city of Little Falls the State by a notice of appropriation served Octo*489ber 30, 1908, took for a part of the canal location Bellinger street and a portion of Southern avenue, public streets of the city.
In those streets at the time were water mains and a fire hydrant, a part of the municipal water system located therein by permission of the Legislature. The southern portion of the city lying across the canal was supplied by these mains. In deference to the sovereign power of the State, the city proceeded to remove a part of its mains…
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