City of New York v. Coney Island Fire Department of Gravesend
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
This action in ejectment was instituted May 19, 1936, by plaintiff, successor in interest of the town of Gravesend. (Laws of 1894, chap. 449, particularly § 3; Laws of 1897, chap. 378.) Plaintiff has standing to maintain the action, which is founded upon an alleged breach of condition subsequent in the deed mentioned infra. (Upington v. Corrigan, 151 N. Y. 143, 153.)
In 1892 defendant, an organization of volunteer firemen with 350 members.in the then town of Gravesend, was duly incorporated under the provisions of chapter 397 of the Laws of 1873. That statute contemplated only corporations the…
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