Legal Opinion
Walls v. Giuliani
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided February 8, 1996No. 95 CV 2494PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
KORMAN, District Judge.
This is one of several recent cases involving squatters who are occupying apartments in buildings acquired by the City of New York in tax foreclosure proceedings. Lord Denning has succinctly defined a squatter as “one who, without any colour of right, enters on an unoccupied house or land, intending to stay there as long as he can. He may seek to justify or excuse his conduct. He may say he was homeless and that this house or land was standing empty. But this plea is of no avail in law.” McPhail v. Persons Unknown, 1 Ch. 447, 456B (1973) (Denning,…
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