Legal Opinion
City of Albany v. State
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 12, 1971No. Claim No. 39793PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtScileppi, J.
In this appeal we have been asked to determine whether the City of Albany had title to 8.5 acres of land, taken by the State of New York in 1961, for the State University campus.
The ownership of the property in question traces back to the 1686 Dongan Charter. In 1817 the city decided to divest itself of some of its property and authorized the preparation of the Van Alen map. This map set forth several “ Great Lots ” bordering along a paper street — then denominated Lydius Street and now known as Madison Avenue — and it is the title to this proposed street, which through the years has never…
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- Matter of City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1909
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