Kauffman v. State

— Cross appeals from a judgment in favor of claimants, entered October 31, 1972, upon a decision of the Court of Claims. Claimants are the owners of a two-story single-family residence located in a residential section of the City of Mount Vernon with highly restrictive residential zoning. In October, 1968, and for 32 months thereafter, the State took a temporary easement across the front of claimant’s property for use as a work area in connection with the reconstruction of the Cross County Parkway in Westchester County. At the same time) the State appropriated two one-family residences…