DiCanio v. Inc. Village of Nissequogue
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Santucci, J.
Presented for our adjudication are competing claims of title to the bed of the Nissequogue River, a large navigable waterway in northwestern Suffolk County. The narrow question on appeal is whether title to the riverbed is vested in the Town of *225Smithtown, by virtue of letters patent issued in 1963 by the State of New York, which itself had derived title in 1776, or in the Incorporated Village of Nissequogue (hereinafter the Village), by virtue of a 1977 deed which culminated a chain of title purporting to convey the riverbed and is directly traceable to two…
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