Smith v. . City of Rochester

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1883-06-05

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Ruger, Ch. J. The State by virtue of its sovereignty is deemed the original grantor of all titles to real estate, and a conveyance by it of riparian rights upon non-navigable streams vests its grantees, both mediate and remote, with all the rights which such owners can acquire against any grantor. The riparian owners of lands adjoining fresh Avater, non-naviga…

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