Board of Education v. French

This is an action under article 15 of the Beal Property Law in which the plaintiff prays for a judgment declaring it to be the owner in fee simple, free from any condition precedent or condition subsequent, of a 50 ft. x 100 ft. plot in the Incorporated Village of Bockyille Centre, located on the easterly side of Clinton Avenue, with its southerly line 102 feet northerly from Front Street.

*209The evidence shows that a public spirited citizen, John Lyon, who was also an outstanding member of the Nassau County Bar for many years, conveyed to the plaintiff, as a gift, the premises in question by…