# Lawrence v. Mayor of New York

> New York Supreme Court · April 3, 1848 · 2 Barb. 577

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/5457318

## Case

- **Full name:** Lawrence v. The Mayor, &c. of New-York
- **Court:** New York Supreme Court
- **Decided:** April 3, 1848
- **Citations:** 2 Barb. 577
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court by Edwards
- **Judges:** Edwards
- **Cited by:** 4 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Edwards, J.
The plaintiff in this suit claims relief on two grounds. First, That he is entitled to an easement in a street known as Fourteenth-street in the city of New-York; the same having been laid out and opened, and dedicated to the public as a street one hundred feet wide. Second, That a tract of land one hundred feet wide, and known as Fourteenth-street, has been conveyed to the mayor, aldermen, &c. of the city of New-York, in trust, to be “appropriated and kept open for, or as a part of, a public street, avenue, square, or place forever;” and that the plaintiff, as one of the cestuis que trust, has a right to restrain the trustees from a violation of their trust The bill is filed on behalf of the plaintiff and such persons as *580 shall come in, and contribute to the expenses of the suit, and who can, or might, claim that the street should be appropriated and kept open forever, as a public street.
The facts that the street was laid out by the commissioners appointed under the act of ISO?-, as a street one hundred feet wide, and was afterwards opened by the mayor, aldermen1, vent. It is to them that the injunction should be addressed.
The motion to dissolve the injunction must be denied. 1

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