Van Kleeck v. State

Decision Date29 November 1966
Docket NumberNo. 39285,39285
Citation18 N.Y.2d 897,276 N.Y.S.2d 633,223 N.E.2d 41
Parties, 223 N.E.2d 41 Ralph VAN KLEECK et al., Appellants-Respondents, v. STATE of New York, Respondent-Appellant. Claim
CourtNew York Court of Appeals Court of Appeals

Guido J. Napoletano and William J. Ryan, Kingston, for appellants-respondents.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. (Julius L. Sackman and Ruth Kessler Toch, Albany, of counsel), for respondent-appellant.

MEMORANDUM.

The order appealed from should be modified (see Cornell v. T.V. Development Corp., 17 N.Y.2d 69, 73, 268 N.Y.S.2d 29, 32, 215 N.E.2d 349, 351). Since the property was valued on a commercial basis, no value should have been assigned to the buildings on the property, which were inconsistent with that use (Matter of Erlanger, 237 N.Y. 159, 164, 142 N.E. 571, 573; Spano v. State of New York, 22 A.D.2d 757, 253 N.Y.S.2d 730). Accordingly, the order of the Appellate Division is modified to the extent of striking therefrom so much as awards $15,000 for the buildings and, as modified, the order is affirmed, with costs.

DESMOND, C.J., and FULD, VAN VOORHIS, BURKE, SCILEPPI, BERGAN and KEATING, JJ., concur.

Order modified in accordance with the memorandum herein and, as so modified, affirmed, with costs.

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    • April 6, 1981
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