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

The People of the State of New York ex rel. City of New York, Appellant, v. Alfred P. W. Seaman et al., Constituting the Board of Assessors of the City of New York, Defendants, and Arthur D. Greenfield et al., Respondents.
    
      People ex rel. City of New York v. Seaman, 171 App. Div. — affirmed.
    (Argued January 11, 1916;
    decided January 25, 1916.)
    Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered December 24, 1915, which dismissed a writ of certiorari and confirmed the proceedings of the board of assessors of the city of New York in awarding damages to property owners occasioned by a change of grade. The city contested the claim on the grounds that the board was without authority under the statute (L. 1890, ch. 207, § 3) to make any award and that the claim was barred by the Statute of Limitations.
    
      Lamar Hardy, Corporation Counsel (Charles J. Nehrbas and Terence Farley of counsel) for appellant.
    
      Abram I. Elkus and William E. Collins for respondents.
   Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Willard Bartlett, Ch. J., Chase, Collin, Cuddeback, Cardozo, Seabury and Pound, JJ.