Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with one bill of costs.
It is well settled that when an owner of property sells lots with reference to a map, and those lots abut upon a street as shown on the map, the grantor has presumptively conveyed the fee to the center of the street on which the lots abut, subject to the rights of other lot owners and their invitees to use the entire area of the street for highway purposes (see, Bissell v New York Cent. R. R...
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