ROBINS ISLAND PRESERVATION FUND v. SOUTHOLD DEV.

No. 220, Docket 91-7490.

959 F.2d 409 (1992)

ROBINS ISLAND PRESERVATION FUND, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SOUTHOLD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 23, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bertram E. Hirsch, Floral Park, N.Y., for plaintiff-appellant.

Samuel Kirschenbaum, Garden City, N.Y. (Ira Levine, Kirschenbaum and Kirschenbaum, P.C., of counsel), for defendant-appellee.

Before: MESKILL, WINTER and ALTIMARI, Circuit Judges.


ALTIMARI, Circuit Judge:

This appeal stems from a property dispute encompassing events which took place over two centuries ago when the State of New York seized land belonging to individuals who refused to support the American Revolution. The property at issue is Robins Island, an island of approximately 445 acres in the Peconic Bay of Long Island. In 1779, Parker Wickham, then the owner of Robins Island, was stripped of title to this property as punishment for his...

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