City of Buffalo v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, The City of Buffalo, • from that portion of a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 20th day of September, 1895, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Erie-Special Term, which “ ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the premises in dispute known as Central Wharf, along the north bank of Buffalo Biver, between Main street and Commercial street, be adjudged to be the property…
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Appeal by the plaintiff, The City of Buffalo, • from that portion of a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 20th day of September, 1895, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Erie-Special Term, which “ ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the premises in dispute known as Central Wharf, along the north bank of Buffalo Biver, between Main street and Commercial street, be adjudged to be the property of the Mew York, Lackawanna & W estern Bail way Company, the defendant’s lessor; that no part thereof is a public…
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J. :. The land in dispute at an early date was owned by the Holland Land Oompany. -The map received in evidence .of that company pertaining to this territory shows the present Main street which was designated thereon as Willinks avenue. It also shows an unnamed street extending easterly from Willinks avenue, abutting on, Buffalo creek, which stream is called in the testimony interchangeably Big Buffalo creek, or Buffalo river. There is no street appearing on this map westerly of Willinks avenue and north of the river until. Little'Buffalo creek is reached, which is a tributary of the…
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