Town of North Hempstead v. Gregory
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Cross-appeals by the plaintiff, The Town of North Hempstead, and by the defendants, Charles H. Gregory and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 19th day of April, 1899, upon the report of a referee.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, J.:
The judgment should he affirmed on the opinion of the learned referee.* No further expression is needed, save upon a question first *351raised upon this appeal. These are cross-appeals in an action for ejectment from certain lands under water, below high-water mark, on the westerly side of Manhasset bay, in the county of Nassau, over which the defendants have entered to build and to maintain a dock or wharf. The case was submitted upon agreed facts, and the referee decided that the plaintiff is the owner of the land, that the defendants are the owners of the adjacent upland and are in…
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