Town of North Hempstead v. Eldridge
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, The Town of North Hempstead, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on the 22d day of December, 1904, upon the report of a referee dismissing the complaint. Judgment affirmed, with costs, upon the-opinion of Stephen H. Olin, Esq., referee. Hirschberg, P. J., Woodward, Jenks and Rich, JJ., concurred;
1Opinion of the Court
*790The following is the opinion: of the referee :■
Olin, Referee:
This is an action of ejectment. The plaintiff seeks to- recover about nine a.nd eighty-one one-hundredths-acres of land under water now in possession of the defendant, who is owner of the adjoining upland. This land is situated south of Saddle Socle in the east part,of Little Heck bay (formerly Matthew Garretson’s bay) in the town of Horth Hempstead, county of Hassau.. Little Heck bay is on the north shore of Long Island opening from Long Island Sound, and, is divided at its head by a small peninsula now called Little Heck.
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- People ex rel. Underhill v. SaxtonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
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