Allied Scrap & Salvage Corp. v. State
| Decision Date | 27 October 1966 |
| Docket Number | No. 41138,41138 |
| Citation | 274 N.Y.S.2d 317,26 A.D.2d 880 |
| Parties | ALLIED SCRAP AND SALVAGE CORPORATION, Appellant, v. STATE of New York, Respondent. Claim |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
Milton L. Epstein, Beacon, for appellant.
Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., Emil Woldar, Albany, for respondent.
Before GIBSON, P.J., and HERLIHY, REYNOLDS, TAYLOR and STALEY, JJ.
Appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims awarding claimant.$6,380, plus interest, for the appropriation of a portion of its property and from an order denying a motion to vacate the award on the grounds that the decision was not rendered within 60 days after the cause was finally submitted.
Claimant owned 28.65 acres of land in the Town of Fishkill, County of Dutchess, which did not front on Route 9D but did have an access right of way. The State appropriated 4.45 acres which split the parcel in two, leaving a landlocked area of about 10 acres and another of about 13 acres accessible through the right of way. The property was purchased in 1955 for $7,500. The president of claimant testified to an unsuccessful operation of a scrap and salvage business on the premises for six years following the purchase, the minor improvements made and the sporadic rental of the property to temporary tenants.
Claimant's expert testified that the highest and best use of the property both before and after the appropriation was for warehousing purposes. She testified to a before value of $4,000 per acre and that the total damage to claimant resulting from the appropriation was $70,500 of which she assigned $18,000 for the appropriation of the 4.45 acres, $39,000 to the landlocked parcel and $13,500 for diminution in value of the remaining parcel. She offered no comparable sales in support of her estimate; she erroneously considered the effect the construction of Interstate Route 84 would have on the value of the property (Latham Holding Co. v. State of New York, 16 N.Y.2d 41, 47, 261 N.Y.S.2d 880, 883, 209 N.E.2d 542, 544; United States v. Cors, 337 U.S. 325, 332, 69 S.Ct. 1086, 93 L.Ed. 1392); and she appraised it as of 1965 rather than on the date of the appropriation.
The State's expert found the highest and best use for the subject property to be long-range residential development. On the basis of four sales which were introduced as comparables, he fixed a before value for the 28.65 acres of $400 per acre with a damage figure of.$6,380. This was made up of $4,600...
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