People ex rel. Cornwall v. Woodruff
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Ceetiojsaei issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the ■22d day of June, 1897, directed to Timothy L. Woodruff and others, Commissioners of the Land Office of the State of New York, commanding them to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of Albany all and singular their proceedings in making a grant of land under water in Alexandria bay to Charles W. and Esther A. Crossmon, owners of the adjacent uplands.
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Ceetiojsaei issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the ■22d day of June, 1897, directed to Timothy L. Woodruff and others, Commissioners of the Land Office of the State of New York, commanding them to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of Albany all and singular their proceedings in making a grant of land under water in Alexandria bay to Charles W. and Esther A. Crossmon, owners of the adjacent uplands. This case comes before us u.pon a writ of certiorari to review the 'action of the Commissioners of the Land Office in granting to Charles W. Crossmon and…
1Opinion of the Court
Herrick, J.:
I think the indentation or cove in question in this case must be. regarded as part of the- St. Lawrence river.
The Commissioners of the Land Office have power to grant lands under the waters of navigable rivers “to the owners of the lands adjacent to the lands under water.” (Laws of 1894, chap. 317, § 70.)
*46And in determining who are adjacent owners, and how grants of land should be apportioned between adjoining adjacent owners, it seems to' me the same principles.apply as govern the division' between riparian proprietors of lands formed by alluvion; Tested by them, the land here in…
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