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In the Matter of the Petition of the Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad Company, Appellant, Relative to Acquiring Title to a Right of Way on Myrtle Avenue in the Borough of Brooklyn and City of New York. Edward Mitchell et al., as Executors of Benjamin D. Siilliman, Deceased, Respondents
182 N.Y. 520·New York Court of Appeals·1905·NY
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Opinion
In the Matter of the Petition of the Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad Company, Appellant, Relative to Acquiring Title to a Right of Way on Myrtle Avenue in the Borough of Brooklyn and City of New York. Edward Mitchell et al., as Executors of Benjamin D. Siilliman, Deceased, Respondents.
(Argued May 30, 1905;
decided June 13, 1905.)
Matter of Brooklyn Union Elev. R. R. Co., 102 App. Div. 626, affirmed.
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered March 14, 1905, which affirmed an order of Special Term conñrming an award of commissioners of appraisal in condemnation proceedings.
I. R. Oeland, Charles L. Woody and George D. Yeomans for appellant.
Cyrus V. Washburn and George W. Sickels for respondents.
[MAJORITY]
Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: • Cullen, Ch. J., Gray, O’Brien, Bartlett, Haight, Yann and Werner, JJ.