Legal Opinion

McCoun v. Pierpont

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided March 11, 1921Published

Reargument of an appeal by the plaintiff, Harriet J. McCoun, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on the 8th day of April, 1920, on the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Nassau Special Term dismissing the complaint and adjudging the defendant Nellie Cranz as the rightful owner of three adjoining vacant lots at Long Beach, Nassau county. [See 194 App.

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Reargument of an appeal by the plaintiff, Harriet J. McCoun, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on the 8th day of April, 1920, on the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Nassau Special Term dismissing the complaint and adjudging the defendant Nellie Cranz as the rightful owner of three adjoining vacant lots at Long Beach, Nassau county. [See 194 App. Div. 912.] These lots are numbered 65, 66 and 67, in block 126, on a map No. 1 Estates of Long Beach, filed in Nassau county April 20, 1911,…

1Opinion of the Court

Putnam, J.:

The record contains a photographic copy of page 282 of this assessment roll for the year 1913. These three lots on the 15th, 16th and 17th lines, are near the foot of the page. The first column, entitled “ Name of subdivision,” has written in “ Estates of Long Beach, Long Beach, L. I. William H. Reynolds, President. Map No.... 1907, Chas. W. Leavitt, Landscape Eng. 220 Broadway, N. Y. City. Filed in County Clerk’s office Nassau Co. N. Y. Apr. 20, 1911.” The short lines of this heading fill the space opposite lots 51-54. Beneath are no ditto marks, but each of the lots here in…

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