St. Wm's Ch., Raquette Lake, N.Y. v. People

Plaintiff asserts title to two small lots — each 60 by 136 feet — situate on a hillside at the north end of the hamlet of Raquette Lake in the Adirondacks. When the region was still a wilderness, Alvah Dunning — not a stranger to our reports (People ex rel. Marsh v. Campbell, 143 N. Y. 335; People v. Ladew, 189 N. Y. 355; People v. Ladew, 237 N. Y. 413) — came upon the land and, according to plaintiff, occupied a tract of some 30 acres which included both the hillside and what is now the village proper. Dunning eventually deeded this entire tract to the Raquette Lake Railway Company, and it…