Welch v. Shiffman

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of plaintiffs, entered March 10,1983 in Ulster County, upon a verdict rendered at Trial Term (Connor, J.). 11 In 1972, defendant A. Jack Shiffman decided to sell a house on seven acres of land in the Town of Lloyd in Ulster County. The property was listed with a local real estate broker and an advertisement was placed in the New York Times. Both the listing and the advertisement represented the property as having 700 feet of “frontage” on the Hudson River. Plaintiff Michael W. Welch was not aware of the listing or the advertisement; he…