Duryea v. Mayor of New York

Daniels, J.:

The recovery was for the damages sustained by the plaintiff by-water and other substances, discharged from the Thirty-fourth street sewer, in the city of New York, washing out earth filling, and a bulk-head placed and constructed by the plaintiff upon land conveyed to him by George F. Taiman, who had previously derived his title under a deed made by the defendant to the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company. The original deed was dated on the 29th day-of January, 1817, while the conveyance to the plaintiff was made on the 1st day of February, 1866. At the time when the deed was made to…