Case Name: In the Matter of the Application of the Village of Waverly, Appellant, for a Writ of Mandamus against Erie Railroad Company, Respondent; In the Matter of the Application of the Village of Waverly, Appellant, for a Writ of Mandamus against Waverly and State Line Railway Company and its Lessee, Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, Respondents
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1899-03-14
Citations: 158 N.Y. 710
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Application of the Village of Waverly, Appellant, for a Writ of Mandamus against Erie Railroad Company, Respondent. In the Matter of the Application of the Village of Waverly, Appellant, for a Writ of Mandamus against Waverly and State Line Railway Company and its Lessee, Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 158
Pages: 710–710

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Application of the Village of Waverly, Appellant, for a Writ of Mandamus against Erie Railroad Company, Respondent. In the Matter of the Application of the Village of Waverly, Appellant, for a Writ of Mandamus against Waverly and State Line Railway Company and its Lessee, Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, Respondents.
(Argued February 28, 1899;
decided March 14, 1899.)
Appeals from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department in each of the above-entitled proceedings, entered December 3, 1898, reversing orders of Special Term granting peremptory writs of mandamus directing the defendants to lay out a street across their tracks in the village of Waverly.
Matter of Village of Waverly, 35 App. Div. 38, affirmed.
Frederick E Fawkes for appellant.
Frederick Collin for Erie Railway Company, respondent.
George M. Diven for Waverly. and State Line Railway Company et al., respondents.

Opinion:
Orders affirmed, with costs, on opinion in People ex rel. City of Niagara Falls v. N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. Co. (158 N. Y. 410).