Case Name: Economic Power and Construction Company, Respondent, v. The City of Buffalo and Others, Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1908-09
Citations: 128 A.D. 883
Docket Number: 
Parties: Economic Power and Construction Company, Respondent, v. The City of Buffalo and Others, Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 128
Pages: 883–883

Head Matter:
Fourth Department,
September, 1908.
Economic Power and Construction Company, Respondent, v. The City of Buffalo and Others, Appellants.

Opinion:
Judgment affirmed, with costs. All concurred, except Kruse, J., who dissented upon the ground that the act of the Legislature, so far as it assumes to grant to a private corporation the use of the public right of the streets and highways of the State, is unconstitutional and void, it being not merely a declaration of the powers of the corporation, but an attempt to confer a valuable property right (People v. O'Brien, 111 N. Y. 1) by private act without expressing the same in the title of said act; Spring, J., not sitting.
See Laws of 1898, chap. 459, § 5.— [Rep.