WHITMIER & FERRIS CO. v. STATE OF NEW YORK


20 N.Y.2d 413 (1967)

Whitmier and Ferris Company, Inc., Appellant, v. State of New York et al., Respondents. (Claim No. 45318.)

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided October 26, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman E. Joslin and John B. Drenning for appellant.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Julius L. Sackman and Ruth Kessler Toch of counsel), for respondents.

Chief Judge FULD and Judges BURKE, SCILEPPI, BERGAN, KEATING and BREITEL concur.


VAN VOORHIS, J.

Claimant leased various properties adjacent to the Thruway for the purpose of constructing and maintaining advertising signs. These signs, when they were erected, were more than 500 feet distant from the nearest edge of the pavement of the Thruway and, therefore, were not forbidden by section 361-a of the Public Authorities Law when it was enacted by chapter 593 of the Laws of 1952. They were...

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