Rockaway Park Improvement Co. v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, The Eockaway Park Improvement Company, Limited, from a judgment of the Supreme- Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 15th day of June, 1909, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Queens County Trial Term, a jury having been waived.
1Opinion of the Court
Thomas, J.:
Each party asserts title to some sixteen acres of land below mean high water in Jamaica bay, north of Eockaway Heck. The defendant traces title from the Hicolls patent of 1666 and the Dongan patent of 1686. The plaintiff claims under a patent made in 1685 by Governor Dongan to Palmer whereby Eockaway Heck to the Hempstead line was conveyed, and under letters patent to it made by the State in 1899. Defendant’s contention is that it owns all of Jamaica bay south of its upland, and, therefore, the land under the bay to mean high water on Eockaway beach. The Hicolls charter bounds the…
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