Wolfe v. State

Chief Judge Fuld.

The claimant owned some 156 acres of land in the Town of Chenango. On the east of the property was Front Street, a main north-south highway, constituting for part of its length TL S. Route 11 and N.Y. Route 12. The only access to the claimant’s land on Front Street was available through an area having a 51-foot frontage on that thoroughfare. The property also extended some 4,100 feet along Dorman Road, a county road running west from Front Street. However, for most of this distance, a deep ravine—at some places 80 feet deep and 200 feet wide — cut off access to the claimant’s…