Orleans County Quarry Co. v. State
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The State of New York, from a determination and award of the Board of Claims, entered in the office of the clerk of said board on the 18th day of May, 1915, granting plaintiff a judgment of $76,327.54 for the appropriation of seven and three hundred and one one-thousandths acres of land, with interest, amounting in all to $94,477.08.
1Opinion of the Court
Kellogg, P. J.:
The land appropriated was three quarry properties in the town of Murray, Orleans county. The Court of Claims valued the land appropriated by figuring the probable amount of stone in the ground and giving the claimant that value. The quarries had in fact been opened and worked intermittingly from time to time. A careful perusal of the evidence, however does not indicate that they were uniformly worked at a profit. If interest charges and the equipment and renewals supplied from time to time are taken into account, its business was hardly profitable. In determining the profits of…
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