Case Name: In the Matter of the Application of the City of New York, Appellant, Relative to Acquiring Title to Lands for the Opening of Canal Place in the Borough of the Bronx. James S. Wilson et al., Respondents
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1908-03-03
Citations: 191 N.Y. 525
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Application of the City of New York, Appellant, Relative to Acquiring Title to Lands for the Opening of Canal Place in the Borough of the Bronx. James S. Wilson et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 191
Pages: 525–526

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Application of the City of New York, Appellant, Relative to Acquiring Title to Lands for the Opening of Canal Place in the Borough of the Bronx. James S. Wilson et al., Respondents.
Matter of Oity of New York (Canal Place), 115 App. Div. 458, affirmed.
(Argued February 18, 1908;
decided March 3, 1908.)
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered December 7, 1906, which modified and affirmed as modified an order of Special Term confirming the report of commissioners of estimate and assessment in the above-entitled proceeding.
Francis K. Pendleton, Corporation Counsel (Theodore Connoly, John P. Dunn and Thomas C. Blake of counsel), for appellant.
Augustus Van Wyek for James S. Wilson et al., respondents.
Henry H. Sherman for the Mott Haven Company, respondent.
Hector M. Hitchings and Melvin G. Palliser for Mott Haven Canal Docks Company, respondent.
Edward L. Patterson and S. B. Brownell for Antonio Knauth, as executor of Percival Knauth, deceased, et al., respondents.
Edmund L. Mooney and Lawrence A. Sullivan for Robert J. Gray, respondent.
Henry J. Hemmens and Charles I. Taylor for New York Edison Company, respondent.
William S. Jackson, Attorney-General (A. C. Olp and Welton C. Percy of counsel), for receiver of Knickerbocker Life Insurance Company, respondent.

Opinion:
Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: Cullen, Ch. J., Gbay, Haight, Vann, Webnee, Willard Bartlett and Hiscock, JJ.