Connolly v. State

Claimants are the owners and in possession of a farm in the town of Royalton, Niagara County, which was acquired by deed dated March 2, 1922. At that time the Rochester, Lockport and Buffalo Railroad Corporation occupied for railroad purposes a strip of land across the farm which had been acquired by condemnation in 1906. The operation of the railroad was discontinued on or about April 30, 1931, and the corporation was afterwards dissolved. In the summer of 1931, after the discontinuance of the railroad, claimants took possession of the 2.77 acres of land formerly used as the railroad right…