American Ice Co. v. City of New York
New York Supreme Court
Action by plaintiff in equity to recover the full value of its rights to a pier and for damages and to restrain the continuance and completion of certain improvements.
1Opinion of the CourtLeventritt, J.
Under' a claim of title to the pier at the foot of West Forty-third street and the lands occupied by it, the Knickerbocker Ice Company, the plaintiff’s predecessor *115in title, in 1891 brought an action to restrain the defendant and others from continuing certain harbor improvements projected by the defendant under legislative authority. That action failed for the reason that the city had never conveyed the fee to the land under the pier. Knickerbocker Ice Co. v. Forty-second St. R. R. Co., 85 App. Div. 530; affd., 176 N. Y. 408. The Court of Appeals expressed the opinion, however, that the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Duryee v. . Mayor, Etc., of N.Y.New York Court of Appeals · 1884
- Knickerbocker Ice Co. v. Forty-Second Street & Grand Street Ferry RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1903
- Knickerbocker Ice Co. v. Forty-second Street & Grand Street Ferry RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903