Camillus Hills Pet Lodge, Inc. v. State

— Judgment unanimously modified, on the law and facts, and, as modified, affirmed, with costs to claimants, in accordance with the following memorandum: We find sufficient support in the record for the court’s determination that as a consequence of the improvement the highest and best usé of claimant’s entire property was changed from part commercial and part residential to entirely residential and that the value of the commercial structure was destroyed. The court erred in valuing the pet lodge building as a specialty (see McDonald v State of New York, 52 AD2d 721, affd 42 NY2d 900). We…