Chism v. Smith
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Gross-appeals by the plaintiffs, John D: Chism, Jr., and another, and the defendant, Sheldon D. Smith, from parts of a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Warren on the 13th day of March, 1908, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Warren Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
In 1893 the Lake George Camp Association purchased a tract of land bordering on Lake George, and laid it out into blocks and building lots, with avenues and streets, and subsequently sold lots abutting thereon, with a right of way over such avenues and streets, reserving title to the beds of the streets in itself. One of these avenues was known as White avenue, and ran to the lake shore between blocks designated Nos. 10 and 13. The defendant purchased fou’r lots abutting on another avenue, and not bordering on the lake. Some of the.streets and avenues, upon which houses *716were…
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