Staples v. Cornwall
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Oren Gr. Staples, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of Jefferson on the 15th day of August, 1905, upon the report of a referee dismissing the complaint herein.
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Appeal by the plaintiff, Oren Gr. Staples, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of Jefferson on the 15th day of August, 1905, upon the report of a referee dismissing the complaint herein. The action was commenced in March, 1902, for the purpose of obtaining a permanent injunction restraining the defendants from removing a bridge leading from defendants’ dock to plaintiff’s hotel, located at the village of Alexandria Bay, Jefferson county, R. Y.
1Opinion of the Court
McLennan, P. J. :
The plaintiff is the owner of the Thousand Island House, erected in 1873 at Alexandria Bay, K". Y., ata cost of upwards of $100,000. It is a large summer hotel, equipped with modem improvements, and each season accommodates a large number of transient guests and regular boarders visiting the upper St. Lawrence river. The premises upon which the hotel is situated were conveyed by plaintiff’s grantors upon condition that the grantee would erect a hotel thereon, the grantors at the time being the owners of a public dock and other property upon the river front, and the most…
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