Pollak v. State

Memorandum. The orders of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs. On the issue of access raised in both appeals, the appropriation by the State was without reservation to the property owners of the legal right of access to the public highway. That the State acquiesced in claimants’ use of a service road, on other State-held property, which led to the highway, afforded permissive and practical access but not a permanent legal right of access. The State was and is under no legal constraint to permit claimants to use the roadway nor is the State obligated, by positive law, to…