Walker v. State

The claimant herein seeks to recover for the appropriation by the State of a gasoline station and a two-story apartment house with appurtenant buildings. The appropriation was for the purposes of the State Thruway System. The questions presented for determination concern the amount of claimant’s damage, a counterclaim by the State for $1,800 and “ constitutional interest” (Matter of City of New York [Westchester Ave.], 217 App. Div. 381).

The evidence shows that on September 17, 1952, the Superintendent of Public Works filed in the office of the Department of State the map and description of…