Miller v. Platt
The Superior Court of New York City
The case came up, on the verdict of a jury in favor of the defendants, upon a case made, with liberty to turn the same into a bill of exceptions. The facts are folly stated in the opinion of the couryifvt S'^
1Opinion of the CourtBy the Court. Woodruff, J.
This action is brought by the plaintiffs, to recover the possession of a strip of ground, situated upon the easterly side of Theatre alley, in this city, adjoining . the southerly or rear wall of the building known as the Clinton Hotel, which fronts upon Beekman street, at the corner of the said alley. Although a larger piece of ground was claimed, in the *274plaintiffs’ complaint, it is now conceded, that the controversy, on the trial, was confined, simply, to a space about eleven inches in width, in Theatre alley, and running eastwardly twenty-eight feet, towards Nassau street, between the…
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