In re the Application of the City of New York, Acting by & Through the Commissioner of Docks, Relative to Acquiring Right & Title to & Possession of Certain Real Property, Lands, Lands under Water & Lands under Water Filled in, Not Now Owned by the City of New York, Situated Along the Westerly & Northerly Shores of Jamaica Bay

There are two valid reasons why the order from which the appeal is taken should be affirmed, in the manner hereinafter indicated:(1) The title to the lands under water, part of premises for which an award was made to claimant, was involved in very serious doubt at the time of the commencement of the proceeding:(a) Was the title in the town of Flatlands, the predecessor of the city of New York, as held by Blackmar, J., at a Trial Part and confirmed by Carr, J., in the opinion in Dickens v. City of New York (175 App. Div. 568); as strongly suggested by Willard Bartlett, J., in Denton v. Bennett…