Matter of City of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered May 23, 1913, which affirmed an order of Special Term directing the distribution of an award made in a proceeding instituted to acquire title to land required for street improvement. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered May 23, 1913, which affirmed an order of Special Term directing the distribution of an award made in a proceeding instituted to acquire title to land required for street improvement. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The deed from Thomas 0. Woolf, Joseph A. Woolf and John A. Woolf to Claus Young, dated July 19, 1855, did not include any part of the land within the boundaries of Walnut street on the Mount Eden map. The grant was limited to the exterior lines of…
1Opinion of the CourtHiscock, J.
This appeal involves a controversy over the right to an award in proceedings to acquire title for street improvements. Without going into the details of the proceeding it is sufficient to state that the underlying and decisive question is whether under the description used in one or more conveyances, the grantee took title to the middle or only to the exterior line of a public highway known as Walnut street, now in the city of New York.
The description thus to be interpreted ran as follows: “All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Town of West Farms,…
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