In re the Grade Crossing Commissioners
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the Grade Crossing Commissioners of the city of Buffalo and others, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Erie Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 6th day of June, 1900, as confirms that portion of the report of the commissioners of appraisal appointed in the proceeding which fixed the awards to the Cary Safe Company, George Rumsey Howard, mortgagee, and the American Glucose Company.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The plans adopted by the grade crossing commissioners of the city of Buffalo, pursuant to the provisions of chapter 345 of the Laws of 1888, as amended, to obviate the crossing of streets at grade by railroads, provide for carrying Chicago street over the tracks of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company and the Erie Railroad Company by a viaduct. Chicago street runs north and south, and a short distance south of these tracks Scott street runs westerly therefrom. . The original plans provided that the southerly approach to the viaduct should commence or reach the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Bohm v. Metropolitan Elevated Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1892
- Matter of Grade Crossing CommissionersNew York Court of Appeals · 1898
- In re Grade Crossing CommissionersAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1896
3Cited by4 opinions
- Matter of Grade Crossing Comrs. of BuffaloNew York Court of Appeals · 1913
- In Re Grade Crossing Commissioners of the City of BuffaloNew York Court of Appeals · 1912
- In re the Grade Crossing CommissionersAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1915
- In re Grade Crossing CommissionersAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1912