People v. Willis

Savarese, C. M.

This case was tried before me, sitting, with defendant’s consent, as a Court of Special Sessions held by one city magistrate. I, therefore, decide the controversy on the merits. The substantial facts are not in dispute.

The defendant is the agent of the owner, and as such is in control, of a certain plot of vacant land on the north side of the World’s Fair boulévard, about 325 feet east of Queens boulevard, Elmhurst, Queens county.

Sometime in 1890, before consolidation, when that territory was nothing but marshy ground, the then town of Newtown, by appropriate condemnation…