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Economic Power & Construction Co. v. City of Buffalo

112 N.Y.S. 1127 Court N.Y. App. Div. Decision date 1908-09-23 English

Decision Majority — PER CURIAM. · Dissent — KRUSE, J.,

Contents

Majority

p. 1127
ECONOMIC POWER & CONST. CO., Respondent, v. CITY OF BUFFALO et al., Appellants.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department.
September 23, 1908.)

Headnote

Action by the Economic Power & Construction Company against the city of Buffalo and others.

Judgment ( 59 Misc. Rep. 571 , 111 N. Y. Supp. 443 ) affirmed, with costs.

dissents upon the ground that the act of the Legislature, so far as it assumes to

Dissent

p. 1128
grant to a private corporation the use of the public right of the streets and highways of the state, is unconstitutional and void; it being not merely a declaration of the powers of the corporation, but an attempt to confer a valuable property right (People v. O’Brien, 111 N. Y., 1 , 18 N. E. 692 , 2 L. R. A. 255 , 7 Am. St. Rep. 684 ) by private act, without expressing the same in the title of said act.

SPRING, J., not sitting.