Moore v. . the Mayor, Aldermen, C., of New York
New York Court of Appeals
This action was brought in the superior court of the city of New York by the plaintiff, as widow of Lewis Moore, to recover .dower of certain lands in the city of New York, of which her husband was seized in fee during her coverture.
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This action was brought in the superior court of the city of New York by the plaintiff, as widow of Lewis Moore, to recover .dower of certain lands in the city of New York, of which her husband was seized in fee during her coverture. She was married to him in 1815, and remained his wife until his death in 1843. In the year 1817 he owned . the lands in which dower was claimed, and they were taken from him by the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York, in pursuance of “ An act authorizing the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York to take certain lands,” passed…
1Opinion of the CourtGardiner, J.
The statute under which the corporation of the city of New York makes title to the premises claimed by the plaintiff, authorizes the commissioners appointed by the supreme court to make “a just estimate of the damage to the respective owners, lessee's, parties and-persons respectively entitled unto or interested in the lands, tenements and hereditaments proposed to be appropriated to the use of the city. (Laws 1817, Ch. 75, § 1.) A subsequent clause in the same section provides that the report of the commissioners, when confirmed, shall vest the fee simple absolute in the lands so…
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