Mayo v. New York Central R.R. Co.

These two actions involve the title to lands under water on the easterly side of the Hudson river, at a point approximately one mile north of the village of Croton-on-Hudson. The plaintiffs claim title to the two parcels involved in the first action and the four parcels involved in the second, as the successors in interest of Stfephanus Van Cortlandt, to whom, in the year 1697, there -was patented by the Crown a large tract of land on the east side of the Hudson river, between the Croton river on the south and Anthony’s Nose on the north, extending through to the Connecticut line on the east.…