In re the City of New York

This proceeding was brought by the City of New York to condemn several parcels of land on and near the Harlem River, and the question is as to whether the awards made for three of those parcels belong to respondent Superintendent of Insurance, as liquidator of a mortgage company, or to appellants Coogan. The same parcels had been, in about 1920 (when owned by Harriet Gr. Coogan, who died intestate in 1947, and was the mother of, and predecessor in title of, appellants) the subject of an earlier condemnation suit brought by Eighth Avenue Railroad Company. Since that earlier acquisition by…