Eldridge v. . City of Binghamton
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme. Court in the fourth judicial department, entered upon an order made November 9, 1886, which affirmed a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon a verdict directed by the court, and affirmed an order denying a motion for a new trial. This was an action of ejectment to recover the possession of a parcel of land in the city of Binghamton that formerly constituted a part of the Chenango canal.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme. Court in the fourth judicial department, entered upon an order made November 9, 1886, which affirmed a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon a verdict directed by the court, and affirmed an order denying a motion for a new trial. This was an action of ejectment to recover the possession of a parcel of land in the city of Binghamton that formerly constituted a part of the Chenango canal. The plaintiff’s claim of title is based upon various conveyances running back to Lewis Squires and Joseph B. Abbott, who, on September 1, 1836,…
1Opinion of the CourtVann, J.
By chapter 32 of the Laws of 1833, entitled “ An act for the construction of the Chenango Canal,” the canal commissioners were directed to “ proceed with all reasonable diligence to construct and complete a canal from Binghamton, in the county of Broome, up the valley of the Chenango river to its head-waters and thence by the most advantageous route to the Erie canal.” The Revised Statutes in force at that time provided that when any lands appropriated by the canal commissioners to the use of the public shall not be given or granted to the state, it shall be the duty of the canal appraisers…
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