Case Name: In the Matter of the Application of The Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, Relative to Acquiring Title, etc., to the Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments Required for the Purpose of Opening Vanderbilt Avenue, West (Although Not Yet Named by Proper Authority) from East One Hundred and Seventy- third Street to Pelham Avenue, etc., in the Twenty-fourth Ward of the City of New York; In the Matter of the Petition of Elizabeth Ransford, Respondent, for Damage to Lot No. 65, in Block No. 3028, etc.; The City of New York, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1907-05
Citations: 119 A.D. 882
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Application of The Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, Relative to Acquiring Title, etc., to the Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments Required for the Purpose of Opening Vanderbilt Avenue, West (Although Not Yet Named by Proper Authority) from East One Hundred and Seventy- third Street to Pelham Avenue, etc., in the Twenty-fourth Ward of the City of New York. In the Matter of the Petition of Elizabeth Ransford, Respondent, for Damage to Lot No. 65, in Block No. 3028, etc.; The City of New York, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 119
Pages: 882–883

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Application of The Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, Relative to Acquiring Title, etc., to the Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments Required for the Purpose of Opening Vanderbilt Avenue, West (Although Not Yet Named by Proper Authority) from East One Hundred and Seventy- third Street to Pelham Avenue, etc., in the Twenty-fourth Ward of the City of New York. In the Matter of the Petition of Elizabeth Ransford, Respondent, for Damage to Lot No. 65, in Block No. 3028, etc.; The City of New York, Appellant.
Highway • — award by municipality "to-abutting owner for damage ip a private easement because of the discontinuance of a public road over the servient land. '
Appeal from, an order confirming the' report; of commissioners awarding to Elizabeth Ransford, an abutting owner, §2,000 as-compensation for the destruc-, tion of her private easements caused by the discontinuance - of an. old road in , front of her premises.

Opinion:
Order affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, on the authority of Matter of Mayor, Vanderbilt Avenue (95 App. Div. 533)..' Present—Patterson, P. j., Ingraham, McLaughlin, Clarke and Lambert, JJ.; Ingraham and Clarke, JJ., dissented.