The court ruled Moses’s Taylor seizure was fundamentally unlawful

Evidence

Tuttle asked that he be punished for contempt, but Dike accepted a commission attorney’s explanation that he had advised Moses it would not be necessary for him to appear. The attorney then moved for a jury trial—and when Dike granted the motion, the start of the trial was delayed until December 6. On December 7, the commission attorneys filed more than six hundred pages of briefs asking for dismissal of the case—but Dike peremptorily denied the motion, and there was a note in his decision that the commission could only have considered ominous. As the Times reported: “In his decision yesterday [the] judge…ruled that the Commission had not had appropriated at the time the Taylor Estate was seized, the funds necessary.” — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 896

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