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MTR. OF PORT AUTH. TRANS-HUDSON CORP.

20 N.Y.2d 457 (1967)

In the Matter of the Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation, Respondent-Appellant, Relative to Acquiring Real Property in the State of New York and the State of New Jersey for Hudson Tubes Purposes. Hudson Rapid Tubes Corporation et al., Appellants-Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided October 31, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David W. Peck, Theodore N. Tarlau, L. Robert Driver, Jr., John C. Jaqua, Jr., and Michael A. Cooper for appellants-respondents.

Whitney North Seymour, Joseph Lesser, Milton H. Pachter, Robert S. Tobin, John A. Guzzetta, James J. Hagan, Eleanor M. Fox and Nancy M. Clarkson for respondent-appellant.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General of New York (Julius L. Sackman and Ruth Kessler Toch of counsel), for State of New York, amicus curiæ.

Arthur J. Sills, Attorney General of New Jersey (David A. Biederman, admitted on motion pro hac vice, and Alan B. Handler of counsel), for State of New Jersey, amicus curiæ.

Chief Judge FULD and Judges VAN VOORHIS, SCILEPPI and BERGAN concur with Judge KEATING; Judge BURKE dissents as to the decision on the appeal by claimant Hudson Rapid Tubes Corporation and votes to modify in a separate opinion; Judge BREITEL taking no part.

KEATING, J.

The Hudson Rapid Tubes Corporation and the Hudson and Manhattan Corporation were the owners and operators of an interurban electric railroad system commonly known as the Hudson Tubes. The facility which has been in operation since 1911 carries some 28,000,000 passengers yearly and over 24% of the daily rush hour commuters between New York City and its New Jersey suburbs.

The Tubes have not...

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