Case Name: In re SAWMILL RIVER ROAD IN THE CITY OF YONKERS
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1912-10-11
Citations: 137 N.Y.S. 825
Docket Number: 
Parties: In re SAWMILL RIVER ROAD IN THE CITY OF YONKERS.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 137
Pages: 825–828

Head Matter:
In re SAWMILL RIVER ROAD IN THE CITY OF YONKERS.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department.
October 11, 1912.)
1. Eminent Domain (§ 167*)—Streets—Straightening and Widening— Statutes—Repeal.
Laws 1908, c. 452, was entitled “An act to supplement the general laws relating to the government of Yonkers and to revise and consolidate the local laws relating thereto,” but did not in terms refer to the Second-Class Cities Law or to the Condemnation Law. It repealed all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith, so far as they affected the city of Yonkers, together with the acts enumerated in the schedule annexed thereto. Held, that Second-Class Cities Law (Consol. Laws 1909, c. 53) § 103, being inconsistent with the act of 1908, was repealed, and that, proceedings by the city of Yonkers to acquire land for municipal purposes being required to be conducted under the act of 1908, the Condemnation Law (Code Civ. Proc. §§ 3357-3441) did not apply.
[Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Eminent Domain, Cent. Dig. §§ 451-456; Dec. Dig. § 167.*]
2. Eminent Domain (§ 265*)—Costs—Extra Allowance.
Laws 1908, c. 452, supplementing general laws relating to the government of the city of Yonkers, being silent as to costs and allowances in proceedings by the city to condemn land for municipal purposes, did not repeal. Code Civ. Proc. § 3240, providing that costs in a special proceeding in a court of record, where the costs thereof are not specially regulated in this act, may be awarded to any party, in the discretion of the court, at the rates allowed for similar services in an action brought in the same court, or an appeal from a judgment taken to the same court and in like manner, and hence in such a proceeding the court may grant a property owner a taxable bill of costs, together with an extra allowance.
[Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Eminent Domain, Cent. Dig. §§ 690-693; Dec. Dig. § 265.*]
Burr and Thomas, JJ., dissenting.
♦For other cases see same topic & 8 number in Dec. & Am. Digs. 1907 to date, & Rep’r Indexes
Appeal from Special Term, Westchester County.
Condemnation proceedings by the City of Yonkers to acquire land to straighten and widen the Sawmill River Road. From an order denying a motion of Patrick Byrne for taxable costs and an extra allowance, he appeals.
Reversed.
Argued before HIRSCHBERG, BURR, THOMAS, WOODWARD, and RICH, JJ.
Woodson R. Oglesby, of New York City, for appellant.
Thomas F. Curran, Corp. Counsel, of Yonkers, for respondent.

Opinion:
RICH, J.
This proceeding was instituted under the provisions of the supplementary charter of the city of Yonkers (chapter 452' of the Laws of 1908), in which appellant's land was acquired by the city for the purpose of straightening and widening one of its public streets. Upon the presentation of the report of the commissioners to the court for confirmation, the appellant asked for a taxable bill of costs, together with an extra allowance of costs. The request was denied by the learned court at Special Term, upon the sole ground that the court was without the power, and the question presented upon this appeal is whether the court reached an erroneous conclusion.
The act under which the proceeding was instituted was entitled "An act to supplement the general laws relating to the government of the city of Yonkers, and to revise and consolidate the local laws relating thereto," and does not in terms refer to the "Second-Class Cities Law" (Consol. Laws 1909, c. 53), or to the Condemnation Law (Code Civ. Proc. § 3357-3441). The act is supplemental, and provides that:
"All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are repealed so far as they affect the city of Yonkers; and the acts enumerated in the schedule annexed, are repealed."
Section 103 of the Second-Class Cities Law is inconsistent with the supplemental act and is therefore repealed. Under that section, proceedings to acquire land for municipal purposes must be taken under the provisions of the Condemnation Law, while under the supplementary statute such a proceeding by the city of Yonkers is to be taken in accordance with the procedure therein specified and provided. This proceeding being taken under the provisions of chapter 452 of the Laws of 1908, and not under the Condemnation Law, the provisions of the latter statute do not apply. Matter of City of Brooklyn, 148 N. Y. 107, 42 N. E. 413.
The supplementary statute is silent as to costs and allowances in proceedings of this character, and I am of the opinion that it was the intention of the Legislature that section 3240 of the Code of Civil Procedure should not be repealed.
The order must therefore be reversed, with $10 costs and disbursements, and the proceeding remitted to the Special Term for the exercise of its discretion.
HIRSCHBERG and WOODWARD, JJ" concur.