James W. Hughes Corp. v. State

This claim, filed pursuant to an enabling act (L. 1950, ch. 792), is brought to recover damages arising from the State’s appropriation of a temporary easement in claimant’s land, in connection with certain grade crossing elimination work in Staten Island, for the purpose of maintaining a railroad detour.

Claimant’s plot of land, approximately 106,428 sq. ft. in size and bounded by the railroad right of way on its north, was affected by the taking in that a temporary easement was appropriated in the middle portion thereof (23,307 sq. ft), leaving a strip of land (25,629 sq. ft.) to the north of…