Case ID: misc_6/html/0429-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Van Wyck, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Kuhlman et al. v. City of Brooklyn.
    (City Court of Brooklyn—General Term,
    January, 1894.)
    Kb intention to assign awards for lands taken to widen a street under chap* t«r 559, Laws of 1871, can be inferred from a mortgage made after the passage of that act which expressly excludes from the premises described the land so taken, and restricts the conveyance to the parts of the lots, not taken.
    Appeal from judgment in favor of defendant.
    
      Charles C. Smith, for plaintiffs (appellants).
    
      Almet F. Jenks, for defendant (respondent).
   Van Wyck, J.

This is an action to recover awards made for land (the front strips of two lots) taken for the widening of North Second street in this city, under an act passed April 19, 1871 (Laws 1871, chap. 559). This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of defendant. Plaintiffs’ alleged claim to the awards rests upon a mortgage made after the passage of this act, which mortgage expressly excludes from premises described therein the land taken for the widening of this street, and restricts the conveyance to the parts of the lots not taken. No intention to assign these awards can be inferred from this mortgage. In Engelhardt v. City of Brooklyn, 3 Misc. Rep. 30, cited by plaintiff, and Delap v. City of Brooklyn, Id. 22, we held that there was an assignment for the reason that the mortgages in those cases were the exact reverse of this one, in that they conveyed the whole of the lot by metes and bounds, as if no part thereof had been taken for the widening of the street.

Judgment must be affirmed, with costs.

Osborne, J., concurs.

Judgment affirmed, with costs.