Matter of City of Buffalo
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered. December 29, 1911, which affirmed an order of.Special Term confirming the report of commissioners in condemnation proceedings. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered. December 29, 1911, which affirmed an order of.Special Term confirming the report of commissioners in condemnation proceedings. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. If the question whether the appellant owns any riparian rights was properly before the commissioners, they erred in their finding that it has none as appears by the undisputed facts, found fully by the commissioners. (Philadelphia Co. v. Stimson, 223 U. S. 605; Wells v. Bailey, 55 Conn. 292; N. Y. C.…
1Opinion of the CourtWerner, J.
The exceedingly able and comprehensive report of the commissioners in this proceeding has served very materially to simplify the complicated questions which have been presented to the courts for decision. This fact was emphasized in the opinion of Mr. Justice Spring who wrote for the Appellate Division upon the appeal to that court, and we concur in that opinion so far as it goes, but deem it necessary to discuss two additional questions which affect, respectively, the appellants New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company and Bowen et al.
The proceeding was instituted by the city of…
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