Opinion ID: 242417
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Heading: Title to the 'bulge' Area.

Text: 28 Defendants claim title to the 'bulge' area on the basis of a general description in their deed from a corporation known as Lidoland, Inc., which refers to the northern boundary of the property as 'North by Reynolds Channel.' The contract of sale also referred to the northern boundary as the Reynolds Channel. However, the specific descriptions in all the deeds in the chain of title place the northern boundary on a line known as the bulkhead line, which is the southern boundary of the 'bulge' property, and the district court seems to have accepted this as controlling. That conclusion is clearly correct, for the specific description by metes and bounds in the deed to Lidoland prevails over the general description, John Clark Estate v. City of New York, 2nd Dept. 1915, 165 App.Div. 873, 151 N.Y.S. 714, 716, 876. Hence Lidoland, Inc. could not convey the 'bulge' to defendant Nemerov since it had no title to it. For the same reason, a corrective deed which it conveyed to Nemerov in 1955 purporting to correct a mistake in the earlier deed by conveying the 'bulge' was ineffective since Lidoland, Inc. did not have the 'bulge' to convey. 29 Affirmed as to the issue of title to the bulge; reversed and remanded for proceedings in accordance with the opinion as to the valuation of the condemned land and the severance damages of the property east and west of the condemned area.