Order reversed on the law, with $10 costs and disbursements, and motion granted, without costs.
Damage caused by a change of grade to real property abutting on a street is damnum absque injuria, in the absence of legislation authorizing such damages. (Sauer v. City of New York, 180 N.Y. 27, affd.
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