Jacobus v. Willis

Plaintiffs ask an injunction restraining defendant from continuing an encroachment by defendant upon plaintiffs’ property, or, in the alternative, damages suffered by plaintiffs by reason thereof. The property in question, ■belonging to the plaintiffs, consists of an unimproved lot, 25 feet by 100 in size, known as Ko. 14 West Sixty-fourth street, Manhattan borough, in this city. A survey, offered in evidence by plaintiffs, shows that the building erected by defendant in 1895, on the adjoining lot in West Sixty-fourth street, encroaches upon plaintiffs’ land one and one-half to two and…