Chism v. Smith
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, John D. Chism, Jr., and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Warren on the 11th day of March, 1915, dismissing the complaint upon the merits upon the decision of the court after a trial at the Warren Trial Term, a jury having been waived.
1Opinion of the Court
Lyon, J.:
The action is in ejectment. The appeal is from a judgment entered upon a dismissal of the complaint at the close of the trial. The case has been three times tried. It has been once before the Court of Appeals (210 N. Y. 198), and twice heretofore before this court (138 App. Div. 715; order amd., 140 id. 885; 150 id. 893).
In 1893 the Lake George .Camp Association acquired from one Seelye a ten-acre tract of land situated in the county of Warren, N. Y., described as bounded on the west by the shore of Lake George at low-water mark as it winds and turns. The association laid out the…
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