Claim of Lavigne v. Village of Alexandria Bay

Some years ago plaintiffs purchased a plot of land located in the defendant village and situated on two sides of a street that runs along a side hill. They paid $3,500 for the land, and later sold the portion thereof located on. the upper side of the street for $3,500. Thereafter the defendant village raised the grade of the street as an incident to paving the same, and plaintiffs have received an award of $2,651 and interest, in all $3,188, for damages to the land on the lower side of the street growing out of the change of grade. From an order confirming the award of commissioners in…