In re the City of New York — 199 N.Y. 557

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In the Matter of the Application of the City of New York, Appellant, Relative to Acquiring Title to Lands Required for a Public Park along the Shore of the East River in the Borough of Queens. East River Land Company, Respondent.

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Matter of City of New York (Public Park), 138 App. Div. 890 , affirmed.

(Argued September 26, 1910;

decided October 11, 1910.)

Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered April 22, 1910, which affirmed an order of Special Term directing the comptroller of the city of New York to pay to the respondent herein a sum fixed as the cash disbursements

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caused said respondent by the discontinuance of the above-entitled proceeding.

Archibald R. Watson, Corporation Counsel (Joel J. Squier and G. E. Draper of counsel), for appellant.

Charles Renner for respondent.

Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Cullen, Ch. J., IIaight, Vann, Werner, Hisuock and Chase, JJ. Absent: Willard Bartlett, J.