Horton v. Niagara, Lockport & Ontario Power Co.

Plaintiffs bring this action to establish their title to two certain pieces of land, one the bluff, so called, lying on the south bank of th,e Salmon, river, and the other the gore, so called, which is part of an island lying in the river. The bluff is claimed, by plaintiffs under a d,eed to their ancestor from the executors of William C. Pierrepont, deceased, and the gore is claimed by plaintiffs under a deed to their ancestor from the heirs of Blakeman. The bluff is a strip of land about thirteen and one-half chains long and extends from the river’s high-water mark on the south bank to the…