Garrison v. City of New York
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York; the ease being thus: On the 17th of May, 1869, the legislature of the State of New York passed an act* providing for the widening and straightening of Broadway, in the city of New York, between Thirty-fourth and Fifty-ninth Streets.
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Error to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York; the ease being thus: On the 17th of May, 1869, the legislature of the State of New York passed an act* providing for the widening and straightening of Broadway, in the city of New York, between Thirty-fourth and Fifty-ninth Streets. It required the commissioners of the Central Park of the city, within four months after its passage, to lay out and establish the lines of the street, so as to -widen and straighten it, and to cause certificates and maps of the location of the new lines to be filed in certain public offices of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
To reverse the judgment of the Circuit Court, the plaintiff contends that the act of the legislature of New York, of February 27th, 1871, was repugnant to the Constitution of the United States in that it impaired the obligation of a contract, and to the constitution of the State in that it under took to divest a vested right contrary to the law of the land and without due process of law.
As a basis for his argument he assumes that under the statute of the State relating to the opening and improvement of streets in the city of New York, passed in 1813, and which is one of the laws referred-to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Strang v. New York Rubber Co.The Superior Court of New York City · 1869
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