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

Giuseppe Quaratielli et al., Appellants, v. Anthony Sileo, Respondent.
    
      Real property — title — ejectment —• adverse possession — action to recover ¡ • possession of strip of land — title by adverse possession.
    
    
      Quaratielli v. Sileo, 188 App. Div. 998, affirmed.
    (Submitted October 21, 1921;
    decided November 22, 1921.)
    Appeal from a judgment, entered July 11, 1919, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiffs, entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term and directing a dismissal of the complaint. The action was in ejectment to recover possession of a strip of land from three and one-quarter to eleven inches wide and alleged to be a portion of premises conveyed to plaintiffs. The Appellate Division held that title to the disputed land passed to the defendant’s predecessors by a continuous, open, adverse possession for upwards of twenty years.
    
      George H. Frost for appellants.
    
      Joseph J. Lunghino for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Hogan, Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane and Andrews, JJ. Absent: His cock, Ch. J.