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p. 508In the Matter of Opening Townsend Avenue from East One Hundred and Seventieth Street to East One Hundred and Seventy-sixth Street in the City of New York. The City of New York, Appellant; Henry B. Ely et al., as Trustees of the Estate of William Astor, Deceased, Respondents. (Argued June 2, 1903; decided June 16, 1903.)
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Matter of Townsend Avenue, 76 App. Div. 612 , affirmed.Appeal, hy permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered December 4, 1902, which affirmed an order of Special Term denying a motion to confirm the report of commissioners of estimate and assessment in the above-entitled proceeding.
The following question was certified: “ Did the commissioners adopt an erroneous principle in making their assessment in this proceeding ? ”
George L. Hives, Corporation Counsel (Theodore Connoly, John H. Dunn and Thomas C. Blake of counsel), - for appellant.
John C. Shaw and Joel J. Sgtrnr for respondents.
Order affirmed, with costs, and the question certified not answered, because under this record it does not present a question of law only, but instead a mixed question of law and fact; no opinion.
Concur: Parker, Oh. J., Gray, O’Brien, Bartlett, Haight, Cullen and Werner, JJ.