Lassiter Properties, Inc. v. State

Appeal from an order of the Court of Claims (Fitzpatrick, J.), entered April 14, 2003, which granted defendant’s motion to dismiss the claim.

This dispute over timber rights in the Town of Colton, St. Lawrence County (hereinafter the property) requires the interpretation of a deed executed in 1925 by the Oval Wood Dish Corporation to F.L. Carlisle & Company, wherein Oval Wood expressly reserved its interest in the timber “now standing or lying on the above described premises.” Claimant is a successor in interest to the timber rights described in the 1925 deed and defendant is the current owner…