Barber v. Woolf

Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure of a tax lien a sale was held, and the purchaser now asks to be relieved from his bid on the ground that one Minzesheimer has or may have private easement of light, air and access over the land sold. It is conceded that, under the authority of Jackson v. Smith, 153 App. Div. 724; affd., 213 N. Y. 630, the judgment herein does not bar any easement which Minzesheimer may have if the easements survived the proceeding taken under the so-called Street Closing Act (Laws of 1895, chap. 1006). In the proceedings for the closing of Rockwood street Minzesheimer was…