Crocker v. Manhattan Life Insurance

After examining the testimony given by the different surveyors and the surveys put in evidence in this case, I am of the opinion that it has been proven that the southerly wall of the defendant’s building overhangs the point on Broadway which is distant 204 feet and inches southerly from the southeasterly comer of Broadway and Wall street, at the roof of No. 70 Broad*688way, about two and five-eighths inches. This would not bring the line of the defendant’s northerly wall over the plaintiff’s true southern boundary line, because the deed of the plaintiff makes the commencement point in the…