Verplanck v. Mayor of New York
New York Court of Chancery
Bill to establish a right to wharfage from a portion of a slip on the westerly side of the pier at the foot of JBeekman Street in the city of New York fund, for an account of the Wharf-age received by the defendants.
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Bill to establish a right to wharfage from a portion of a slip on the westerly side of the pier at the foot of JBeekman Street in the city of New York fund, for an account of the Wharf-age received by the defendants. In the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty, the then Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the city of New York granted to Robert Crommeline for ever, subject to an annual quit rent, a certain water lot, to be made land and gained out of the East River, bounded northerly by Water Street and extending southerly into the East River, containingin breadth on Water Street as well as…
1Opinion of the Court
The Vice-Chancellor:
It has been made a point in the cause whether the grantees, by accepting the grant upon the understanding of dedicating twelve feet to the public as a street and occupying the residue only for private purposes, could afterwards claim wharfage for any more than thirty eight feet of the front or southerly side of South Street. By the terms of the grant, they were bound to construct the wharf at their own expense and make South Street, along the entire front of fifty feet. This has been done. The deed declares them entitled to all the emoluments accruing from the wharf or…
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- In re City of New YorkNew York Supreme Court · 1903
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