People ex rel. Town of West Seneca v. Public Service Commission
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, the Town of West Seneca, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Albany Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Albany on the 24th day of September, 1908, denying the relator’s motion for an absolute writ of prohibition and dismissing an alternative writ of prohibition previously granted.
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Appeal by the relator, the Town of West Seneca, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Albany Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Albany on the 24th day of September, 1908, denying the relator’s motion for an absolute writ of prohibition and dismissing an alternative writ of prohibition previously granted. On Movember 30, 1906, the respondent the Terminal Railway of Buffalo, a steam surface railroad operating a double-track road through the town of West Seneca, the appellant herein, in Erie county, presented to the Board of Railroad Commissioners a…
1Opinion of the Court
Cochrane, J.:
The question is as to the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission to rehear and redetermine a matter heard and determined by the Board of Railroad Commissioners, under the grade-crossing provisions of the Railroad Law (§§ 60 et seq.).
Section 80 of the Public Service Commissions Law. is as follows: “ On and after the talcing' effect of this act the board of railroad commissioners shall be abolished. All the powers and duties of such board conferred and imposed by any statute of this State shall thereupon be exercised and performed by the public service commissions.” The…
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- In re the Terminal Railway of BuffaloAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907
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