Town of Olive v. Martins

Cross appeals from an order of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered June 25, 1979 in Ulster County, which denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment and partially granted plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment. In 1959 the defendant acquired title to land on both sides of a public highway known as Sheldon Road. The defendant’s deed described the land in separate parcel descriptions although all of it is contiguous except as bisected by the highway. The facts establish that since acquiring the property the defendant has conveyed two lots or plots on the south side of the highway.…