Mangam v. President & Trustees
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
. Appeal by the plaintiff, Deborah L. Mangam, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 15th day of February, 1896, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at a Trial Term of the Supreme Court held in and for the county of Westchester, and also from an order bearing date the 6th day of February, 1896, and entered in said clerk’s office, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a…
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. Appeal by the plaintiff, Deborah L. Mangam, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 15th day of February, 1896, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at a Trial Term of the Supreme Court held in and for the county of Westchester, and also from an order bearing date the 6th day of February, 1896, and entered in said clerk’s office, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Bradley, J.:
The action is ejectment, commenced in 1892, to recover a parcel of land situated within the village of Sing Sing and described by metes and bounds in the complaint. In the deed of conveyance under which the plaintiff claims to have taken title, it is described as bounded “ Easterly by the Highland turnpike road; northerly and northwesterly by a road leading from the Highland turnpike road to the Farmers’ landing ; southerly by the churchyard or land of the First Baptist Church of Mount Pleasant, containing about one-eiglith of air acre of land.” The Highland turnpike road has…
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- Williams v. . the New-York Central Railroad CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1857
- Horey v. . Village of HaverstrawNew York Court of Appeals · 1891
- Amsbry v. . HindsNew York Court of Appeals · 1871
- Amsbey v. HindsNew York Supreme Court · 1866
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