Case ID: ny-sup-ct_9/html/0377-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of the Application of HENRY JAMES ANDERSON, to Vacate an Assessment for Paving First avenue.
    
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    Appeal by the Mayor, etc., of New York, from an order made at Special Term, vacating certain assessments made upon the property of the petitioner.
    
      The assessment in question was laid in 1874, for the expense of paving First avenue, New York, from Thirty-sixth to Sixty-first street.
    
      E. Delafield Smith and William Barnes, for the Mayor, etc., of New York.
    
      E. Ellery Anderson, for the respondent Anderson.
    
      
      See Phillips v. Mayor, etc., ante, p. 212.
    
   Opinion by Daniels, J.

Davis, P. J., concurred.

Order appealed from reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements on appeal, and an order entered denying the application, with ten dollars costs.