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

In the Matter of the Application of the Town of Mamaroneck et al., Respondents, for an Order of Peremptory Mandamus against the New York Inter-Urban Water Company, Appellant.
    
      Water works companies — towns — power of town board to make compulsory orders for installation of water mains and hydrants.
    
    
      Matter of Town of Mamaroneck v. N. Y. Inter- Urban Water Co., 203 App. Div. 122, affirmed.
    (Argued February 26, 1923;
    decided March 13, 1923.)
    Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered November 3, 1922, which unanimously affirmed an order of Special Term granting a motion for a peremptory order of mandamus to compel the New York Inter-Urban Water Company to extend its water mains in Forest avenue in the town of Mamaroneck and to install certain fire hydrants. The following question was involved: “ Does section 81 of the Transportation Corporations Law confer power upon a town board to make compulsory orders for the installation of mains and hydrants binding upon a water company operating in a town? ”
    
    
      Arthur M. Johnson for appellant.
    
      J. Henry Esser for respondents.
   Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Hogan, Cardozo, Pound, Crane and Andrews, JJ. Absent: McLaughlin, J.