In re Opening of Seventh Avenue
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the People of the State of New York from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the Office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 16th. day of November, 1900, adjudging the petitioner, John P. Cleary, to be entitled to an award for land taken in the proceeding, and directing the comptroller of the city of New York to pay such award to the petitioner.
1Opinion of the Court
Sewell, J.:
The State of New York acquired title to lot No. 4, Dutch Tract, the property described in the petition herein, through a sale for the non-payment of taxes, and was the owner thereof at the time of the proceeding to open Seventh avenue in the city of Brooklyn, in the year 1890. The State continued to own the property, subject to the easement- or interest acquired by the city in- a portion thereof, until about the 12th day of January, 1900, when it was sold by the Land Commissioners of the State of New York to one Jane Gil-feather for the sum of forty-one dollars, who, three days…
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