Holloway v. . Southmayd

Appeals from orders of the General Term of the Supreme Oourt in the first judicial department, made April 14,1892, each of which reversed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict directed by the court and granted a new trial. These were actions of ejectment. The facts, so far as material in each case, are stated in the opinion therein. The plaintiff’s ancestor, Charles Ward Apthorp, was the owner in fee of the land within the lines of the Bloomingdale road, subject only to the easement of the public in the same for public use as a highway. He retained the right to the reversion…