TURNER v. NEW YORK

No. 41.

168 U.S. 90 (1897)

TURNER v. NEW YORK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided October 18, 1897.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frank E. Smith for plaintiff in error. Mr. Thomas F. Conway was on his brief.

Mr. T.E. Hancock, Attorney General of the State of New York, and Mr. William Henry Dennis for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE GRAY, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

On May 15, 1885, the legislature of New York, by the statute of 1885, c. 283, declared that all the lands then owned or thereafter acquired by the State of New York within certain counties (one of which was Franklin county) should constitute and be known as the forest preserve; and established a forest commission of three persons, styled forest commissioners, to "have the care, custody,...

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