Mayes Co. v. State

—Per Curiam.

The State of New York appeals from a judgment of the Court of Claims awarding damages to claimant in the sum of $284,000, with interest, for the permanent appropriation of land for *1067highway purposes. Prior to the taking claimant’s property consisted of slightly more than 4.5 acres of land situate in the Village of Fleisehmanns, Delaware County, and improved by buildings housing machinery used in the manufacture of hardwood veneer. Within the confines of the appropriated area there was a spring-fed pond comprising about one half acre of land, the waters of which had sufficed the…