Legal Opinion

Callahan Estate v. Manhattan Railway Co.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided June 4, 1915Published

Appeal by the defendants, Manhattan Railway Company and another, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 16th day of April, 1915, granting an injunction pendente lite.

1Opinion of the Court

McLaughlin, J.:

The order appealed from restrained the defendants during the pendency of the action from relocating or reconstructing the columns supporting their elevated railroad on any part of the sidewalk on the west side of the Bowery between Grand and Broome streets and on the east side of the Bowery between Broome and Delancey streets in the city of New York, including the sidewalk in front of two lots owned by the plaintiff.

On March 19, 1913, the Public Service Commission authorized the defendant Manhattan Railway Company to reconstruct its railway along that part of the Bowery…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Estate v. Interborough Rapid Transit Co.New York Supreme Court · 1915

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