Pergament v. State

Cross appeals from a judgment in favor of claimants, entered February 17, 1971, upon a decision of the Court of Claims. Claimants owned and operated several discount stores on Long Island. In 1964 they began to purchase land in the Town of Smithtown, Suffolk County, and by April, 1965 had accumulated an assemblage of approximately 10.918 acres as the site for a proposed 93,000 square foot retail discount store. On July 20, 1967 the State appropriated 3.973 acres of claimants’ land for possible enlargement of the Hauppage-Port Jefferson Highway, a major east-west highway upon which claimants’…