Hewitt v. State

Appeal from a judgment, entered February 3, 1976, upon a decision of the Court of Claims which awarded claimant the sum of $16,000 for damages resulting from the partial appropriation of his property for highway purposes (Highway Law, § 30). Claimant was the owner of a rectangular plot of approximately 15,000 square feet situated at the corner of Larkfield Road and Pulaski Road in the Town of Huntington, Suffolk County. The property had land improvements necessary for the operation of a gasoline station with a 100-foot frontage on Larkfield Road and a 150-foot frontage on Pulaski Road. On…