Mayor of New-York v. Stuyvesant's Heirs
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Superior Court of New-York city. The defendants, who are the same in both actions, are the heirs of Nicholas W. Stuyvesant. They claimed title to a triangular piece of ground lying between the Bowery, Third-avenue and Seventh-street in the city of New-York, which had been laid out and opened as a public place, called Stuyvesant-square.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of New-York city. The defendants, who are the same in both actions, are the heirs of Nicholas W. Stuyvesant. They claimed title to a triangular piece of ground lying between the Bowery, Third-avenue and Seventh-street in the city of New-York, which had been laid out and opened as a public place, called Stuyvesant-square. On the 17th of July, 1852, they instituted a proceeding, under the Revised Statute relative to the determination of claims to real estate, by causing a rule to be entered in the Supreme Court and notice to be served upon the city corporation,…
1Opinion of the Court 1
Johnson, Ch. J.
The conveyance of 1825 from Stuyvesant and wife to Hall and Eead, of the property now designated as. Stuyvesant-square, after acknowledging a pecuniary consideration, grants, bargains, sells, releases and conveys to Hall and Eeade, and to their heirs and assigns forever, the above mentioned premises, to have and to hold, unto them, their heirs and assigns, to their own proper use forever. These expressions, prior to the Revised Statutes, were effectual to vest the whole legal estate in the grantees, whatever might be the form of equitable interest created by the subsequent…
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