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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of the Application of The City of New York, Relative to Acquiring Title Wherever the Same Has Not Been Heretofore Acquired for the Same Purpose in Fee, in Trust for the Use of the Public, to the Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments Required for the Purpose of Extending the Public Beach from the Easterly Line of the Existing Public Beach to the Prolongation of the Easterly Line of Coney Island Avenue, as Laid Out upon the Map or Plan of The City of New York by Resolution Adopted by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment on June 27, 1924, in the Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York. The City of New York and Others, Appellants; Realty Associates, Respondent.
   Decree, in so far as appealed from by The City of New York, reversed upon the law and the facts, with costs to the appellant against the claimant, respondent, Realty Associates. The lands for which the awards in question were made are all under the waters of the Atlantic ocean and have been for thirty and more years as the result of avulsions, and it is the opinion of this court that the undisputed evidence shows that said submerged and lost lands have not been regained or reclaimed by the claimant, respondent, or its predecessors, and that the circumstances disclosed by the proofs show an intention on the part of said owners to abandon such lands. The appeal of Cohen and others from the assessments contained in said decree for benefits is dismissed, without costs. The record shows that these property owners were given due notice of the time and place for a hearing on the tentative decree and were not deprived of an opportunity to be heard. There was no abuse of the court’s discretion in refusing these parties an adjournment. In view of the reversal of the part of the decree appealed from, the whole matter is remitted to the Special Term for a readjustment of the assessments. Young, Kapper, Carswell, Scudder and Tompkins, JJ., concur.