Wappinger Apartments Second Corp. v. Town of Wappinger

Petitioner seeks peremptory relief in the nature of mandamus against the respondent town and its Highway Superintendent for the removal of a barrier that is located at the southerly terminus of the street and along the northerly bounds of petitioner’s property.

This street was dedicated and accepted as such in 1940, has been posted as a dead-end street, and until 1965 ended and was blocked by a stone wall that marked the northerly boundary of petitioner’s property. In 1964 the land lying south of this wall was annexed by the Village of Wappingers Falls and thereupon the wall became the…