People ex rel. Crowell v. Lawrence

This case comes here by appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, rendered upon a return to a certiorari, made by the commissioners appointed under an act of the legislature, passed April 19, 1859, entitled “An act to provide for the closing of the entrances of the tunnel of the Long Island Railroad Company, in Atlantic street, in the city of Brooklyn, and restoring said street to its proper grade, and for the relinquishment, by said company, of its right to use steam power within said city.” This return brings before us for review, the proceedings had to assess certain sums upon the lands…