Hastings v. Twenty-Third Ward Land Improvement Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Frank P. Hastings, from a judgment of the* Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, bearing date the 8th •day of May, 1899, and entered in the office of the clerk of the ■county of New York upon the decision of the court, rendered after •a trial at the New York Special Term, dismissing the complaint upon the merits.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J.:
The action was brought to recover for a breach of a covenant against incumbrances contained in a deed of a lot of land in the city -of New York, and the question presented is as to the time a certain *610assessment for benefit, imposed, for opening a street upon which the property conveyed abutted, became an incumbrance upon the property upon which it was imposed. In considering this question the dates are important.-
Upon the 30th day ,of November, 1896,, the defendant, a domestic corporation, being the owner of certain real éstate in the twenty-third ward of the city of New York…
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