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CONKLIN v. STATE OF NEW YORK

284 A.D. 193 (1954)

Austin W. Conklin et al., as Trustees of The Johnsontown Methodist Episcopal Church, Appellants, v. State of New York, Respondent. (Claim No. 29681.) E. R. Leach et al., Constituting the Board of Trustees of The Newark Annual Conference of The Methodist Church, Respondents, v. State of New York, Respondent. (Claim No. 30648.)

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

May 19, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul R. Carr for appellants.

Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney-General (Richard H. Shepp and Wendell P. Brown of counsel), for State of New York, respondent.

Frederick H. Frey for E. R. Leach and others, respondents.

FOSTER, P. J., BERGAN and COON, JJ., concur.

IMRIE, J.

This controversy involves the title of property in the town of Haverstraw, Rockland County, New York, conveyed on May 9, 1872, by Cortland Conklin and Margaret Jane, his wife, to four named "Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Johnsontown." Between that time and 1875 a small church was constructed. In 1947 land and buildings were appropriated by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission. Notices...

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