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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of the Application of International Railway Company, Appellant, v. William S. Rann, as Corporation Counsel of the City of Buffalo, Respondent, for a Peremptory Writ of Mandamus.
    Order affirmed as a matter of law and not in the exercise of any discretion, without costs.
   Held, we are of the opinion that the provisions of the MHburn agreement ’ with reference to ñve-cent fares in the city of Buffalo are “ property or rights ” of the city; that any relinquishment thereof is a disposition of such “property or rights ” within the meaning óf section 31 of the city charter. AH concurred, except Foote, J., not voting. 
      
       Laws of 1914, chap. 217, § 31. — [Rep.