People v. Ambrecht
New York Supreme Court
Action of ejectment. This action was brought to recover possession of part of the Old Port Military and Parade Ground, in Oswego. The premises in question, comprise part of the grounds which the United States government had claimed and occupied since 1839, as a military station, and within which grounds (but not comprising a part of the “ locus in quo”) is “ Port Ontario.”
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Action of ejectment. This action was brought to recover possession of part of the Old Port Military and Parade Ground, in Oswego. The premises in question, comprise part of the grounds which the United States government had claimed and occupied since 1839, as a military station, and within which grounds (but not comprising a part of the “ locus in quo”) is “ Port Ontario.” The defendant was an enlisted soldier of the United States, stationed at Fort Ontario, to take charge of personal property of the United States there stored, and had occupied a building in the fort for eight or ten days…
1Opinion of the Court
W. F. Allen, J. (referee).
The action is brought to test the right of Mr. Gerret Smith, under a lease from the city of Oswego, to a narrow strip of land in the harbor of Oswego in front of “Fort Ontario,” and which has been inclosed, and claimed by the United States under a grant from the State, for the purpose of a military post and fortification. The grant to the United States was made in 1839, pursuant to an act of the Legislature, passed April 25th, of that year, to be used “ for the purpose of re-establishing the military post, of rebuilding *99the fort, redoubts, and barracks, and of…
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