Legal Opinion
City of New York v. Wright
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 1, 1926PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGardozo, J.
The action is ejectment.
Plaintiff, the city of New York, alleges that it is the owner, and entitled to the possession, of land now or formerly under water, forming part of Cromwell’s creek in the borough of The Bronx. For answer, the defendant Wright sets up a final order made in proceedings under article 12 of the Real Property Law (the so-called Torrens Law, Cons. Laws, ch. 50), whereby title to the land in suit was registered in her. The city urges that the proceedings are ineffective, first, for lack of jurisdiction, and second, for fraud.
Lack of jurisdiction results, it is said, from…
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- Tyler v. Judges of Court of RegistrationMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1900
- Campbell v. . EvansNew York Court of Appeals · 1871
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