Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York July 15, 1902 (Dolan v. New York & Harlem Railroad)

lead-opinion

Hatch, J.:

The action is an attempt by abutting owners to enforce what they have from time to time been permitted to think were their legal rights in the public thoroughfare upon which their property fronted. Since the decision, however, in the case of Fries v. N. Y. & H. R. R. Co. (169 N. Y. 270), and the former decision of Lewis v. N. Y. & H. R. R. Co. (162 id.