IN RE NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILROAD CO.

No. 623, Docket 35530.

447 F.2d 428 (1971)

In the Matter of the NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILROAD COMPANY, Debtor. The CITY OF NEW YORK, Petitioner-Appellant, (for approval nunc pro tunc, of condemnation of a parcel of the Trustee's real property) v. Richard Joyce SMITH, Trustee of the property of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 4, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milton H. Harris, Office of the Corp. Counsel, New York City (J. Lee Rankin, Corp. Counsel of The City of New York, New York City, and Stanley Buchsbaum, New York City, of counsel), for petitioner-appellant.

William P. Jones, New York City (James William Moore, New Haven, Conn., of counsel), for respondent-appellee.

Before MOORE and SMITH, Circuit Judges and TIMBERS, District Judge.


MOORE, Circuit Judge:

In 1955, the debtor purchased certain property bordering on the East River in Bronx County, New York City. Much of this land was resold to various industries, but the railroad retained a plot 50 feet by 421 feet, partly by fee ownership and partly by easement, for use as a railroad right of way. In March, 1961, the City of New York (the City) commenced an "assessable improvement" proceeding in condemnation of this land. Notwithstanding the fact...

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