Court Opinion

ID: 5545131
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-10 18:57:22.983953+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:34:54.342497
License: Public Domain

Bischoff, J.
Two grounds only are assigned for reversal of judgment, viz., that the referee erred in his conclusion that the diminution of light and air caused by passing trains on defendants’ elevated railroad structure in front of plaintiff’s premises constituted a taking of the easements of light and air appurtenant thereto, and that, in determining the sum representing the depreciation of the premises in fee value and to be paid as an alternative for avoiding the injunction, the referee erroneously included the effect upon the premises, as regards the diminution of light and air, resulting from the continued operation of the railroad in the future. Both questions were determined adversely to the appellants in Smith v. Railroad Co., 18 N. Y. Supp. 132, (decided by the general term of this court in March last,) and the present does not appear to be distinguishable from that case. The judgment should therefore be affirmed, with costs.