Hall-Mark Realty Corp. v. McGunnigle

Plaintiff sues to recover a down payment on the purchase of about eighty-four acres of farm land on the ground that the title tendered is unmarketable. The question is as to the ownership of a strip of land fifty feet wide and about eight hundred and eighty feet long running across the premises, being the westerly half of a so-called Division avenue laid out on a map between two contiguous farms by the owner of one of them in 1854 but never opened. One farm was known as the Van Veghten or King farm; the other as the Sevin farm. Division avenue is not and has never been either a public or…