Sage v. Mayor of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered December 8, 1896, affirming a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon a decision of the court at Special Term dismissing the complaint.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered December 8, 1896, affirming a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon a decision of the court at Special Term dismissing the complaint. The plaintiff, as the owner of a parcel of land lying between 94th and 95th streets on the Harlem river, which is a navigable stream where the tide regularly ebbs and flows, traces his title back to a grant made by .Governor Nichols on the 11th of October, 1667, whereby he conveyed to the inhabitants' and freeholders of the village of New…
1Opinion of the CourtVann, J.
The lands granted by Governor 27ichols to the inhabitants of the village of 27ew Harlem were bounded on the east by the Harlem river, which was made by specific mention the limit of the conveyance in that direction. After the lands intended to be conveyed had been thus definitely bounded in the deed, a clause followed which, in the profuse language of ancient documents, described the appurtenances so fully as to give rise to the claim now made that the boundaries of the grant itself were enlarged thereby. As the western shore of the river below high-water mark consisted largely of “ meadows,…
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