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134 A.D. 161

In re Chew

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1909-10-08

Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 27th day of March, 1909, directed to Chester 0. Ketcham and others, composing the hoard of trustees of the village of Babylon, commanding them to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of Suffolk all and singular their proceedings had in laying out a certain street in the village of Babylon, the relator being the owner of the land to be taken.

Decided 1909-10-08

Gaynor, J.:

¶1The order of the village trustees laying out and opening the street gives its West line by courses and distances, and the East line as along a certain tidal creek, with an addition that such East line should “ extend out into the waters of the creek wherever necessary to make a width of fifty feet ” ; and the order makes two specified maps which were received in evidence and filed in the proceeding a part of the description. These maps show the said West line, and also the line of'the creek. Being on a scale of 100 feet to the inch, it appears that the width between the said two *162lines of the street is always at least fifty feet, except at one place, where there is a narrow jog or spur (viz., about .25 feet wide) on the creek which runs in to or a little over the said West line bf the street. It is therefore objected by the appellant that at that point the street will be of no width for the reason that it cannot cross the said jog or spur, inasmuch as that would be to encroach on tidewater, although the order of the commissioners permits that to be done. But to bridge or even fill up this trifling jog or break in the bank would be no encroachment on the creek. The custom is to fill them up. The permission of the order to carry the line out into the water where that would be necessary to get a road width of fifty feet was put in the order only because of the objection raised before the commission in respect to this spur or jog, and is superfluous.

¶2The order should be affirmed.

¶3Hirschberg, P. J., Jenks, Burr and Rich, JJ., concurred.

¶4Determination affirmed, with costs.

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