Sammis v. Town of Huntington
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Town of Huntington, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Suffolk on the 18th day of July, 1918, overruling a demurrer to the complaint with leave to defendant to answer on payment of costs. Defendant also appeals from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 20th day of June, 1918, overruling the said demurrer.
1Opinion of the Court
Putnam, J.:
This was a suit in equity on a lease of town lands under water. It was to enforce rights of renewal and to have judicially assessed the appraised valuation of buildings and other erections upon property leased under peculiar covenants. Such lease had been granted in the year 1866 by the “ trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of Huntington ” to the late Henry J. Scudder for a term of fifty years at a rental of fifteen dollars per year. After his death, this leasehold interest is alleged to have passed to the plaintiff.
*465The complaint states that, at and prior to…
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