Child v. . Chappell
New York Court of Appeals
This was an action of ejectment, commenced in the supreme court in the year 1845. The plaintiff claimed to recover a wharf, about seven feet wide by about forty feet in length, lying on the east side of a basin of the Erie canal at Rochester, and in front of a flour mill belonging to the defendant, situated upon a certain mill-seat lot number five, and also to recover an undivided half of the land' under water constituting that part of the basin in front of said lot number…
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This was an action of ejectment, commenced in the supreme court in the year 1845. The plaintiff claimed to recover a wharf, about seven feet wide by about forty feet in length, lying on the east side of a basin of the Erie canal at Rochester, and in front of a flour mill belonging to the defendant, situated upon a certain mill-seat lot number five, and also to recover an undivided half of the land' under water constituting that part of the basin in front of said lot number five. The cause was tried in September, 1845, before N. Daytoií, late circuit judge. In opening the case the plaintiff’s…
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