Ross v. State

Appeal from a judgment in favor of claimant, entered June 17,1981, upon a decision of the Court of Claims (Hanifin, J.). On April 4,1978, the State appropriated claimant’s private sidewalk, 73 feet in length and nine feet in width (657 square feet), which ran along the Main Street side of claimant’s building located on the northwest corner of Fairview and Main Streets in the City of Oneonta, New York. The building is a two-story steel-concrete brick *710structure constructed in 1928, and occupies about 75% (approximately 5,159 square feet) of the lot, which contains 6,910 square feet. Claimant…