In re the City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the petitioner, Frank B. Walker, from so much of an order of the Supreme -Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk-of the county of Kings on the 16th day of January, 1909, as directs the payment' to the respondents of certain awards made for lands taken by the city of ■ New York.
1Opinion of the Court
Gaynor, J.:
Streets to he opened in the future, including the one now called Decatur street, were laid out on a tract of land in the township of Bnshwick, pursuant to chapter 296 of the Laws of 1852. The said town afterwards became a part of the city of Brooklyn. The'owner ■ of the said tract alsp made and filed a map thereof by lots and showing the said streets, and thereafter sold the -same by descriptions referring to the said streets. The said streets' thereby became subject to the easements of the said lots thereon. In 1903 the city of New York acquired the fee of the land iii the said…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- In the Matter of Opening Eleventh AvenueNew York Court of Appeals · 1880
- City of Buffalo v. . PrattNew York Court of Appeals · 1892
3Cited by2 opinions
- Jones v. GouldAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1912
- People ex rel. Mencke v. BinghamAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1909