Fearing v. Irwin
New York Court of Common Pleas
Case agreed upon and submitted in a controversy without action. The facts, as stated in the case agreed upon, are as follows: In the year 1860, Daniel B. Fearing, deceased (under whose will the plaintiffs were executors, with a power of sale in reference to the premises in question), became possessed in fee, by purchase, of th.e following described premises: “ Certain lots of land situate in the Twelfth Ward of the city of New York, known as numbers 479, 480, 295, 296, 297,…
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Case agreed upon and submitted in a controversy without action. The facts, as stated in the case agreed upon, are as follows: In the year 1860, Daniel B. Fearing, deceased (under whose will the plaintiffs were executors, with a power of sale in reference to the premises in question), became possessed in fee, by purchase, of th.e following described premises: “ Certain lots of land situate in the Twelfth Ward of the city of New York, known as numbers 479, 480, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299 and 300, on Map of Lands in the city of New York, known as ‘ Elm-wood,’ belonging to the estate of Herman…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Coubt.*—Joseph F. Daly, J.
—It is necessary to consider separately the questions submitted with respect to Bloomingdale road and Apthorp’s lane.
*389As to the lots 15 and 16, involving the title to Bloomingdale road, it appears from the description of the premises in the deed to the plaintiffs’ testator, that Daniel B. Fearing was never seized of the fee to the center of Bloomingdale road. It is admitted in the case, that when the Bloomingdale road shall be closed by law, the title to lots 15 and 16, being the abutting half of the same, will revert to the estate of Daniel B. Fearing, as the…
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