Staples v. Schnackenberg
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, John Schnackenberg, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 8th day of March, 1911, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Trial Term before the court, a jury having been waived, in an action for ejectment.
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, J.:
The plaintiffs are the heirs at law of James É. Lent, who obtained title on April 1, 1852, to premises which concededly include those in dispute. The defendant has no record or paper title, but claims title by adverse possession. A map was made and filed in the office of the registrar of deeds of Westchester county on November 1, 1852, by which it appeared that a certain part of the premises thus acquired by Lent, between what was then the Turnpike road on the north and Fourteenth street on the south was divided into lots. The property in dispute was the westerly lot, a triangular…
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