People ex rel. Blakslee v. Commissioners of Land-Office
New York Supreme Court
Certiorari at the relation of E. G. Blakslee to review the action of the commissioners of the land-office in granting land under water in the Hudson river, near Sing Sing, to the E. L. Blakslee Manufacturing Company.
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Certiorari at the relation of E. G. Blakslee to review the action of the commissioners of the land-office in granting land under water in the Hudson river, near Sing Sing, to the E. L. Blakslee Manufacturing Company. On the 28th of February, 1889, the commissioners of the land-office, to whom application had before that time been regularly made, ordered that, upon the payment by the E. G. Blakslee Manufacturing Company to the treasurer of the state of New York of $2,017, letters patent for the beneficial enjoyment to the E. G. Blakslee Manufacturing Company be granted for the lands under…
1Opinion of the CourtMayham, J.
The petitioner, Bbenezer G. Blakslee, and the appellant, the E. G. Blakslee Manufacturing Company, derive their claim of title through several conveyances, transfers, and reservations coming from Reuben Quimby, who was the original owner and common source of title. The claim of the petitioner is based upon a title derived through a mortgage foreclosure, followed by several mesne conveyances of the land under water, based upon a reservation made by Quimby in his conveyance of the upland, the title to which comes to the‘applicant, the B. G. Blakslee Manufacturing Company, through several mesne…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- People v. New York & Staten Island Ferry Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1877
- Gould v. . Hudson River Railroad CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1852
- People Ex Rel. Burnham v. . JonesNew York Court of Appeals · 1889
- Benson v. TownsendNew York Supreme Court · 1889