Weeks v. Dominy
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Henry Dominy and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Suffolk on the 14th day of August, 1912, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Suffolk Special Term, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 17th day of October, 1911, denying defendants’ motion to present certain testimony.
1Opinion of the Court
Putnam, J.:
On May 18, 1909, Mr. Willard N. Baylis bought about 941 acres of wild land on Napeague beach, lying on both sides of the Long Island railroad, the tract extending from Gardiner’s bay south to the Atlantic ocean. It was mostly sand dunes, with beach grass, marsh lands and some scattering cedar bushes, with low bogs, having wild cranberries. ■ The conveyance excepts the right of the public in highways, also the rights conveyed to the Montauk Extension Railroad Company, and the rights granted to the United States (for the life saving station), and then significantly excepts: “ (4)…
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