Triple Cities Shopping Center, Inc. v. State

Appeal by the State of New York from a judgment of the Court of Claims awarding damages in the sum of $120,000, with interest, for the appropriation pursuant to section 30 of the Highway Law of a parcel of land in the Town of Union, Broome County. In 1960 the State appropriated 17.360 ± acres of vacant land owned by claimant, a corporation engaged in developing real estate for commercial purposes, and situate on the south side of Route 17C, also known as the George P. Johnson Highway. The land bad a frontage of 1,475 feet on the highway and its southerly border was the Susquehanna River. It…