Hayton v. McLaughlin

The defendant McLaughlin, on October 17, 1938, owned No. 712 Avenue Ó, Brooklyn, N. Y., a small dwelling house. It had a courtyard in front thereof, inclosed on three sides with a wire fence eighteen inches high. This courtyard was nineteen feet, eleven inches, deep, and fifteen feet, five inches, wide. Of its depth eight feet extended beyond the legal building fine, over and upon the sidewalk area. The courtyard, however, did not extend beyond the actual sidewalk or street fine of the adjacent houses. There was a sidewalk space from the front fence to the curb of ten feet, six inches. She…