Wolff v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Julius Wolff, from a. judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 12th day of September, 1903, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the New York Trial Term, a jury having been waived, dismissing the complaint upon the merits.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, <T.:
i The plaintiff is the owner of a piece of property on the-easterly side of Hudson street, between Duane and Thomas streets,, in the city qf New York, upon Which there had been a brick building since the year 1854. Annexed to that building there was-what was described as a covered areaway, which extended into the street, and which appears- to have had a superficial area of -one hundred and fourteen and seventy-five one-hundredths square feet. This covered area way had existed continuously since 1854. In April, 1897, the .plaintiff was engaged in mating repairs and alterations to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Deshong v. . City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1903
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