Tebo v. . City of Brooklyn
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme ■Court in the second judicial department, entered upon an order made July 18, 1890, which reversed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term, refused a new trial and ordered final -'udgment in favor of defendant.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme ■Court in the second judicial department, entered upon an order made July 18, 1890, which reversed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term, refused a new trial and ordered final -'udgment in favor of defendant. This was an action to restrain the sale of plaintiff’s property in the city of Brooklyn for the taxes of 1886, and to compel the cancellation of the tax of record. The facts,' so far as material, are stated in the opinion,
1Opinion of the Court
Follett, Ch. J.
Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth streets, in the city of Brooklyn, are 200 feet apart, parallel with each other, and extend southeasterly from the shore of Gowanug bay, which bay is bounded on the north and east by said city. Second avenue crosses these streets at right angles, and about 300 feet southeasterly of low-water mark on the shore of that bay. First avenue is laid out through that part of the city that bounds the bay on the north, extending actually to the north shore, but it is laid out by imaginary lines over the shoal water’s of the bay to and across Twenty-third and…
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