Case Name: PEOPLE v. DELAWARE & HUDSON CO.
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1912-12-30
Citations: 139 N.Y.S. 392
Docket Number: 
Parties: PEOPLE v. DELAWARE & HUDSON CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 139
Pages: 392–398

Head Matter:
PEOPLE v. DELAWARE & HUDSON CO.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department.
December 30, 1912.)
Appeal from Special Term, Albany County.
Action by the People against the Delaware & Hudson Company for an injunction. From a judgment in favor of the plaintiff entered after a trial by the court (75 Misc. Rep. 322, 135 N. Y. Supp. 339), defendant appeals.
Modified and affirmed.
Argued before SMITH, P. J., and KELLOGG, HOUGHTON, BETTS, and LYON, JJ.
Lewis E. Carr, of Albany, for appellant.
Thomas Carmody, Atty. Gen. (Wilber W. Chambers, Deputy Atty. Gen., of Albany, of counsel), for the People.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Ordered that the judgment be' modified to read as follows:
Adjudged that the plaintiffs, the People of the State of New York, have judgment that the defendant, the Delaware & Hudson Company, be and hereby is perpetually restrained and enjoined from continuing to use the trestle erected by it across Island creek, in the county of Albany, from and after the six months hereinafter mentioned, and is perpetually restrained and enjoined from continuing to encroach upon the bed and waters of said creek; and defendant is required and directed to remove the trestle and piles driven into the land under water underneath it within the bulkhead lines as established by chapter 689 of the Laws of 1906 within six months after service upon its attorney of a copy of this judgment with notice of entry. And it is further adjudged that defendant remove and take away, within six months, all the stone, cinders, and other substances with which defendant filled in the land under water of said creek between said bulkhead lines. And it is further adjudged that the plaintiffs recover of the defendant the sum of $125.91, costs of this action, as taxed by the clerk of this court. And it is further adjudged that the defendant as a condition of being required to remove its said bridge and trestle and the piles supporting it and of restoring Island creek to its former depth and width be permitted when that is done to build a draw, lift, or suspension bridge at the place of the present bridge which will not interfere with the navigation of said creek, and which will afford necessary railroad connection to Rensselaer Island, or, at its election, to build a bridge supported upon piers at practically the place of the old bridge, which shall leave an open clearance over the thread of the stream of not less than 50 feet in width and at least 2 feet greater in height than the present bridge, and! that, in case the appellant shall elect to build a bridge other than a drawbridge, the respondents shall have the right at any time, should the reasonable use of the stream for navigation require, to apply to the court for a modification of the decree entered hereon by requiring the defendant, its successors and assigns, to so change the bridge as the public interests may seem to demand. And it is further adjudged that, in the event the defendant is unable to comply with the terms of this judgment within the six months mentioned, it is to have the privilege of applying to the court, upon due notice to the Attorney General, for an extension of such time.
And, as so modified, the judgment is affirmed, with costs to respondents. All concur, except BETTS, J., dissenting in opinion.