Gilligan v. Cunningham

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court at Special Term, Warren County, which dismissed the complaint herein as to the defendant Nell Pruyn Cunningham. The action was brought for a declaratory judgment fixing the rights of the parties to lands within the bounds of a public highway alleged to have been abandoned. Plaintiffs ask, among other things, that title to certain land within the bounds of the former highway be declared to be vested in them free of any easement for use as a public highway; or, in the alternative, that if the alleged abandoned highwa3r is found to be still a public…