Case Name: In the Matter of the Application of Daniel De Camp to Lay Out a Highway in the Town of Lansing, etc.
Court: New York Supreme Court, General Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1894-05-18
Citations: 60 N.Y. St. Rep. 670
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Application of Daniel De Camp to Lay Out a Highway in the Town of Lansing, etc.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York State Reporter
Volume: 60
Pages: 670–670

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Application of Daniel De Camp to Lay Out a Highway in the Town of Lansing, etc.
(Supreme Court, General Term, Fourth Department,
Filed May 18, 1894.)
Appeal—Decision op county court—Highway.
■ An appeal does not lie from a decision of the county court, confirming the decision of commissioners appointed to lay out a highway.
Appeal from an order granting an application to lay out a highway and assessing damages therefor.
William W. Hare and T. E. Courtney, for app’lts; J. E. Oropsey, for resp’t.

Opinion:
Hardin, P. J.
Chapter 568 of the Laws of 1890, known as the " Highway Law," contains the provisions under which the proceedings were prosecuted, and in § 89 it is provided that any party interested in the proceedings "may apply to the court appointing the commissioners for an order confirming, vacating or modifying their decision, and such court may confirm, vacate or modify such decision. If the decision be vacated, the court may order another hearing of the matter before the same or other commissioners. If no such motion is made the decision of the commissioners shall be deemed final. Such motion shall be brought on upon the service of papers upon adverse parties in the proceeding, according to the usual practice of the court in actions and special proceedings pending therein; and the decision of the county court shall'be final, excepting that a new hearing may be ordered as herein provided". If the final decision shall be adverse to the applicant no other application for laying out, altering or discontinuing the same highway shall be made within two years." Ho provision is found in the statute inconsistent with the idea that it was the intention of the legislature to provide, in an unqualified manner, that "the decision of the county court .shall be final " unless that court shall order a "new hearing." Appellants have called our attention to In re Ryers, 72 N. Y. 1. In that case it was said that the act of 1869 gave an appeal on questions of law from the decisions of the county judge to the supreme court, and that the act of 1871 gave a similar right of appeal. Ho such provision is found ,-in the highway act. We should", therefore, follow the doctrine laid down in People v. Betts, 55 N. Y. 600. In re Swan, 97 N. Y. 492, is consistent with the views already expressed. We think the decision made by the county court was final, and that an appeal therefrom does not lie to this court. Appeal dismissed, with $10 costs and disbursements.'
All concur.