People v. Steeplechase Park Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Steeplechase Park Company and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 3d day of November, 1913, upon the decision of the court after a trial at the Kings County Special Term. (82 Misc. Rep. 247.) The judgment directed the removal of certain encroaching structures from the foreshore of Coney Island.
1Opinion of the Court
Putnam, J.:
The Attorney-G-eneral brought this equity suit in the name of the People, to compel defendants to remove certain structures charged to be nuisances upon the foreshore in front of Steeplechase Park, which runs along the water a distance of about 633 feet. It is owned under different titles. Defendant Huber owns the westerly 297.7 feet under a patent or State grant made in 1897. Steeplechase Park owns 148.63 feet easterly, under a patent to Paul Weidmann, granted February 2, 1898. Defendants Tilyou and Hogg own the next parcel, extending easterly 131.11 feét. This leaves about 56…
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