Legal Opinion

In re Commissioners of Central Park

New York Supreme Court

Decided August 15, 1873PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Motion to confirm report of commissioners of estimate and assessment.

1Opinion of the Court

Daniels, J.—

The papers required to be consulted and considered in the determination of this application were recently handed in, and for that reason no earlier decision of it could be practically made.

It does not present either the propriety or the legality of the assessment made by the commissioners for the purpose of paying the expenses of the improvement, nor the question what property may be lawfully liable to such assessment, but simply whether the commissioners have made proper awards of compensation, so far as such awards affect the parties complaining of them.

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2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. In re Commissioners of Central ParkNew York Supreme Court · 1868

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. In re Delancey StreetAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907
  2. Beers v. SchlessingerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907

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