Deshong v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Maurice W. Deshong, from a judgment . of the Supreme Court in. favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 13th day of December, 1901, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Trial Term before the court without a jury.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J.:
The plaintiff was the owner of two old buildings, 54 and 56 West Third street, in the city of New York, and in January, 1898, tore down these buildings and constructed a new building upon the same site. When these buildings were torn down there was a vault under the sidewalk in front of the buildings and extending from the building line about three feet beyond the curb. There was evidence *235to show that this vault had existed from the year 1876, and that from some time between 1860 and 1870 there had been a small vault under the sidewalk used for coal. After the plaintiff commenced…
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