PEOPLE EX REL. DEW v. REID


82 Misc.2d 583 (1975)

The People of the State of New York on the Relation of Donald F. Dew et al., Petitioners, v. Ogden R. Reid, as Commissioner of Environmental Conservation, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court, Oneida County.

September 3, 1975


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald F. Dew and others, petitioners pro se. Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Ruth Kessler Toch and Jeremiah Jochnowitz of counsel), for respondents.


J. ROBERT LYNCH, J.

In May of 1974 a group claiming to be Mohawk Indians took possession of property around Moss Lake to which the State of New York claims title, and its inclusion in the Adirondack Forest Preserve, by virtue of a 1973 deed from the Nature Conservancy. Through a declaration called the Ganienkeh Manifesto, the occupants claim title not only to this but also to other lands in northern New York...

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