Bond Street & Weatherbest Slip Boathouse Owners v. City of North Tonawanda

Judgment unanimously reversed, without costs, and petition granted. Memorandum: Appellants are tenants of the respondent city and occupy boathouses on city owned riverfront land for $1 per year per front foot. Some of them have resided on the property for over 20 years. The tenants have constructed buildings and have connected city water service to them at their own expense. In 1973 the Niagara County Health Department determined that raw sewage was being discharged into the public waterways from these boathouses and ordered the city to abate the condition. The city thereupon changed its…