Case Name: The People ex rel. Lucy D. Kittridge et al., Resp'ts, v. John Mabie et al., App'lts
Court: New York Supreme Court, General Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1893-12-01
Citations: 58 N.Y. St. Rep. 460
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People ex rel. Lucy D. Kittridge et al., Resp’ts, v. John Mabie et al., App’lts.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York State Reporter
Volume: 58
Pages: 460–461

Head Matter:
The People ex rel. Lucy D. Kittridge et al., Resp’ts, v. John Mabie et al., App’lts.
(Supreme Court, General Term, Second Department,
Filed December 1, 1893.)
Villages—Act of 1870.
The provisions of § 28, title 8, chap. 291 of 1870 apply only to villages incorporated under it.
Appeal from an order in favor of relators.
The village of Peekskill, Westchester county, was incorporated by a special act in 1816, amended several times, and finally con solidated in Laws 1883, c. 117, which fixed the village boundaries. July 19, 1892, the county board of supervisors ordained an -enlargement of said boundaries so as to include a large additional territory, embracing lands of relators. Laws 1870, c. 291, a general law to incorporate villages, by § 33 of title 8, empowers supervisors to enlarge the boundaries of any incorporated village, but in § 28 expressly confines the application of the act to villages incorporated thereunder. Laws 1884, c. 308, grants the' trustees and officers of any village created by special charter the same powers as are prescribed in any general act for the incorporation of villages, except as such special charter may conflict therewith.
Leverett F. Crumb, (Edward Wells, of counsel), for app’lts; Cyrus Wm. Horton (George F. Canfield and Franklin Couch, of -counsel), for resp’ts.

Opinion:
Pratt, J.
Section 28, tit. 8, d 291, Laws 1870, provides, in terms, that its provisions shall only apply to villages incorporated under it. The fact that the legislature in 1873, and again in 1893, passed special acts concerning the village of Poughkeepsie, shows it was not then supposed that the board of supervisors had the powers now claimed. The act of 1884 gives no such powers. The order of the special term must be affirmed, with costs.
Dykman, J., concurs.