Goggin v. Manhattan Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Separate appeals by the plaintiffs, Matthew M. Goggin and others, and by the defendants, the Manhattan Bailway Company and another, from various parts of a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of blew York on the 9th day of July, 1907, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term.
1Dissent
Houghton, J. (dissenting in part):
I concur, in an affirmance of the judgment in favor of the plaintiff Matthew M. Goggin, but I do not think the infancy of the one *648tenant in common suspended the running of the Statute of Limitations as to the adult cotenants. It is true there is a legal distinction • between the title to land obtained by adverse possession, and the prescriptive title. to an .easement acquired by adverse user. Both, however, are interests in land acquired in the same general manner and the time within which.title ripens is the samé. There appears to be no reason why a like…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- White v. Manhattan Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1893
- Baker v. . OakwoodNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Crippen v. . MorssNew York Court of Appeals · 1872
- Scallon v. Manhattan Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1906
- Hindley v. Manhattan Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1906
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