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AMERICAN TITLE & TRUST CO. v. GULF REFINING CO.

No. 243.

72 F.2d 248 (1934)

AMERICAN TITLE & TRUST CO. v. GULF REFINING CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

July 16, 1934.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scudder, McCoun, Stockton & Kerfoot, of New York City (Branch Kerfoot, of New York City, and George S. Hobart and Duane E. Minard, both of Newark, N. J., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Cravath, DeGersdorff, Swaine & Wood, of New York City (Bruce Bromley and Albert R. Connelly, both of New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before MANTON, L. HAND, and AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judges.

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment for the defendants in an action of ejectment. The plaintiff claims to have derived title to a certain part of the foreshore of Staten Island through a grant made in 1708 by Queen Anne to Lancaster Symes, a major in the Colonial Army. The title claimed by the plaintiff is an undivided 87/100 interest.

The defendants Corbin Land Company and Gulf Refining Company contend that the lands in question...

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