Burke v. Henderson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Mary S. Burke, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of■ the clerk of the county of Cattaraugus on the 1st day of November, 1899, upon the report of a referee dismissing the plaintiff’s complaint upon the merits..
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Appeal by the plaintiff, Mary S. Burke, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of■ the clerk of the county of Cattaraugus on the 1st day of November, 1899, upon the report of a referee dismissing the plaintiff’s complaint upon the merits.. The description contained in the deed from ITosea Rhodes and wife to Hiram Dean, under which the plaintiff claims title, is as follows: “ All that tract or parcel of land situate in the village of Olean, County of Cattaraugus and State of New York, being in block fifteen of said village according to a map…
1Opinion of the Court
The following is the opinion of the referee:
William G. Laidlaw, Referee:
The action is ejectment. Union street in Clean runs north and south and is the principal street in the city; Coleman street runs' west from Union at right angles to Union; the plaintiffs lot, by her deed, is a corner lot bounded east by Union thirty-three and one-half feet, and north by Coleman ninety feet, and west by a line parallel to Union; the defendant’s lot, by his deed, fronts on Coleman ■ and is bounded north by Coleman thirty-five feet, and its eastern boundary is a line parallel with Union at the distance of…
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