Legal Opinion
Missionary Society of the Salesian Congregation v. Evrotas
New York Court of Appeals
Decided March 24, 1931PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtO’Brien, J.
Defendant owns Clifford Island situated in Long Island Sound in the city of New Rochelle. On this property consisting of ten acres he leases plots as sites for bungalows and he has more than seventy-five tenants. The island is connected by a footbridge with a dock owned by him on the mainland. The only access to the dock and the island from any highway is by a right of way extending in a southerly direction from the Boston Post Road over a private lane and thence over land owned by plaintiff. It is thirty-five feet wide and is described in various deeds as “ a right of way over a certain…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Herman v. . RobertsNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Grafton v. . MoirNew York Court of Appeals · 1892
- Wells v. . GarbuttNew York Court of Appeals · 1892
- Brill v. . BrillNew York Court of Appeals · 1888
- Thompson v. Orange & Rockland Electric Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1930
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3Cited by49 opinions
- Melvin Griffeth and Lois D. Griffeth v. Utah Power & Light Company, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1955
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- Karlin v. BridgesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1991
- U.S. Cablevision Corp. v. TheodoreuAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1993
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