Cataldo v. Town of Hempstead

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

Cataldo v. Town of Hempstead

13 A.D.2d 779, 216 N.Y.S.2d 680, 1961 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 11208

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedMay 1, 1961

StatusPublished

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Cataldo v. Town of Hempstead, 13 A.D.2d 779, 216 N.Y.S.2d 680, 1961 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 11208 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1961).

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In a proceeding pursuant to section 197 of the Highway Law, for the appointment of commissioners to determine the compensation to which petitioners are entitled by reason of a change of grade of a town road abutting their premises, in which the answer, inter alia, pleads as a third separate defense that petitioners “ failed to present a verified claim within 60 days after the change of grade was completed ”, as required by said statute, the Town of Hempstead appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, dated June 29, 1960, as grants petitioners’ application and as strikes out said separate third defense for insufficiency. It appears that the sidewalks and the grading on the road in question were completed on or before October 23, 1959; that on November 9, [780]*7801969, at the petitioners’ request, the town made a ramp from the sidewalk-.to petitioners’ driveway; that on November 13, 1959, the work was completed under the contract which had been awarded for the portion of the improvement that included the road abutting petitioners’ property;. and that on January 1960, the petitioners served a notice of claim .upon the town. . Order, insofar., as appealed from, affirmed, with .$10.'.costs and disbursements.. No opinion. - Nolan, P. J., Kleinfeld, Christ, Pette and'Brennan, JJ., concur..

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In a proceeding pursuant to section 197 of the Highway Law, for the appointment of commissioners to determine the compensation to which petitioners are entitled by reason of a change of grade of a town road abutting their premises, in which the answer, inter alia, pleads as a third separate defense that petitioners “ failed to present a verified claim within 60 days after the change of grade was completed ”, as required by said statute, the Town of Hempstead appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, dated June 29, 1960, as grants petitioners’ application and as strikes out said separate third defense for insufficiency. It appears that the sidewalks and the grading on the road in question were completed on or before October 23, 1959; that on November 9, [780]*7801969, at the petitioners’ request, the town made a ramp from the sidewalk-.to petitioners’ driveway; that on November 13, 1959, the work was completed under the contract which had been awarded for the portion of the improvement that included the road abutting petitioners’ property;. and that on January 1960, the petitioners served a notice of claim .upon the town. . Order, insofar., as appealed from, affirmed, with .$10.'.costs and disbursements.. No opinion. - Nolan, P. J., Kleinfeld, Christ, Pette and'Brennan, JJ., concur..

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13 A.D.2d 779, 216 N.Y.S.2d 680, 1961 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 11208, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/cataldo-v-town-of-hempstead-nyappdiv-1961.