Langdon v. . Mayor, Etc., of City of N.Y.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, made October 27,1882, which reversed a judgment in favor of defendant, entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term, and granted a new trial.
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, made October 27,1882, which reversed a judgment in favor of defendant, entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term, and granted a new trial. (Reported below, 28 Hun, 158.) This action was brought to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff by reason of the erection of a new wharf or bulk-head in front of plaintiff’s wharf upon the Hudson river, and the filling in of the intervening space, thus cutting off access by vessels to plaintiff’s wharf The material facts…
1Opinion of the CourtEarl, J.
Under the Dongan charter, in 1686, the crown of England granted to the city of New York all the land between high and low-water mark around the island of Manhattan, with jurisdiction over the same, and with power “to take in, fill, and make up and lay out all and singular the lands and grounds in and about said city and island Manhattan, and the same to build upon, or make use of in any other manner or way as to them shall seem fit, as far into the rivers thereof and that encompass the same as low-water mark aforesaidand in 1730, by the Montgomerie charter, it "further granted a strip of land…
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