Graham v. Stern
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Mary Eliza Graham, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, Louis Stern and Lisette Stern,, entered in the office of the clerk of the county -of New York on the 22d day of December, 1898, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the New York Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J.:
- The action is in ejectment. At the close of the case the corm plaint was dismissed by the court, and from the judgment entered upon the dismissal this appeal is taken. The property sought to be recovered was a plot, fifty by thirty feet, near the center of the block now .bounded by Eighty-fourth and Eighty-fifth ■ streets and Fourth and Madison avenues, in the city of New York. It appeared by the evidence of the plaintiff that, before 1804, the city *407of Hew York had title to what were known as the common lands of the city. In establishing a plan of the city these lands, with…
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