MATTER OF CITY OF NEW YORK (WOOLEY AVE.), 270 N.Y. 368 (1936)

1 N.E.2d 467

In the Matter of the Application of THE CITY OF NEW YORK, Respondent, Relative to Acquiring Title to Real Property Required for Opening and Extending Wooley Avenue in the Borough of Richmond. LOUALED DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, INC., Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.Argued March 3, 1936
Decided April 14, 1936

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Appeal from the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department.

H. Spencer Bregoff for appellant.

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Paul Windels, Corporation Counsel (Lewis Orgel, Paxton Blair and Reuben Levy of counsel), for respondent.

Per Curiam.

We are not in accord with the ruling below that private easements were created in damage parcel No. 2 as laid out on the map filed by the appellant’s

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predecessor in title. The lots conveyed by the appellant with reference to this map front on other streets as shown thereon, do not abut upon damage parcel No. 2, and do not require the use of any part of damage parcel No. 2 for access to the city system of public streets.

The orders, in so far as they relate to damage parcel No. 2, should be reversed, with costs to the appellant in this court and in the Appellate Division, and the proceeding remitted to the Special Term for further action.

CRANE, Ch. J., LEHMAN, O’BRIEN, HUBBS, CROUCH, LOUGHRAN and FINCH, JJ., concur.

Ordered accordingly.