Union & New Haven Trust Co. v. People

This is an action instituted pursuant to article 15 of the Real Property Law to determine the defendant’s claim to real estate described in the amended complaint and to adjudge plaintiffs its lawful owners in fee. It was tried before the court without a jury. The direct evidence in the case is essentially undisputed. Much of the proof is documentary in nature embodied in a 35-paragraph stipulation executed by the attorneys for the parties.

The property consists of two parcels, one of 790 acres and the other of 200 acres. The larger parcel was conveyed to one Caleb S. Maltby by Garrison Davis…