Van Aken v. State of New York

Claimants’ farm in Ulster county abuts on and lies south of a highway known as Clay road which leads in an easterly direction to Port Ewen. Its acreage is separated by the right of way of the West Shore division of the New York Central railroad which runs north and south. During many years communication between the two parcels consisted in passing a few feet along Clay road over a grade crossing. The State eliminated this crossing by the erection of a fence on each side of the tracks and, as a result of the closing of Clay .road at this point, transit for vehicles from the homestead and barn…