Streuber v. E. E. Meacham & Son
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, John Streuber, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 20th day of February, 1914, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close .of the plaintiff’s case.
1Opinion of the Court
Putnam, J.:
The defendant corporation owned a tract of marsh land, subject to tidal overflow, along Jamaica creek near Rockaway road, to the south of Jamaica. It had laid this out in building lots, which had been sold to various persons with an easement of access or passage along a sod roadway leading out to the highway at Rockaway road. This private right of way crossed the creek by a raised wooden bridge, which defendant had built for wagons and other vehicles. Frederick Bohn had *575signed a contract for two of these lots but had not taken title. He had engaged a load of building lumber, which…
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