Legal Opinion
American Title & Trust Co. v. Gulf Refining Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 16, 1934No. 243PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from a judgment for the defendants in an action of ejectment. The plaintiff claims to have derived title to a certain part of the foreshore of Staten Island through a grant made in 1708 by Queen Anne to Lancaster Symes, a major in the Colonial Army. The title claimed by the plaintiff is an undivided 87/ioo interest.
The defendants Corbin Land Company and Gulf Refining Company contend that the lands in question, which lie between high and low water mark, were not included in the Symes grant but remained -in the crown, passed to the state of New…
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