Belott v. State

Cross appeals from a judgment of the Court of Claims awarding to claimant damages in the sum of $23,490 resulting from the permanent appropriation of lands in the Town of Clifton Park, Saratoga County. The property involved consisted of two contiguous farms, one, the Howard farm, the right to remove whose deposits of molding sand claimant had purchased for $1,000 by agreement executed in 1941, and the other, the Tunnard farm, in which claimant had secured a similar right for the sum of $250 in 1950. The mining rights in the Howard farm extended for 12 years with options for *750two additional…