Tredwell v. City of Brooklyn
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The City of Brooklyn, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 8th day of June, 1896, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Kings County Special Term, as declares void certain assessments and restrains the said defendant from attempting to collect the same.
1Opinion of the Court
*225The following is the opinion of the Special Term:
Osborne, J.:
On or about December 23, 1886, resolutions were adopted by the board of supervisors of Kings county altering the line of Emmons avenue, in the then town of Gravesend, as laid down on the town survey commissioners’ map, between East Fourteenth street and the westerly end of Plumb island, and according to the map annexed. Said resolutions further provided for application to the Supreme Court for the appointment of opening commissioners to open said Emmons avenue, as changed, from East Fourteenth street to Hog Point creek, and to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- In Matter of Petition of CheesebroughNew York Court of Appeals · 1879
3Cited by1 opinion
- Richter v. Mayor of New YorkNew York Supreme Court · 1898