Guptill Holding Corp. v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims for direct and consequential damages arising out of an appropriation of lands in the Town of Colonie, County of Albany, for purposes of the Northway.

In our decision on the first appeal of this case (20 A D 2d 832) we noted that “ the State would define the issue as the question: ‘ May two contiguous, jointly-used tracts which are separately owned, one by an individual, and the other by a corporation owned and controlled by that individual, be treated as one tract? ’ ” We indicated in that decision our belief, which we also adopt here,…