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- Title
Bishop Falls, New York City, and the Contested Value of Land.
- Authors
Stradling, David
- Abstract
The article discusses an 1877 legal case of eminent domain between the city of New York and Anna Bishop and her sons DeForest and Frank of the town of Olive, Esopus Valley in Catskills Mountains. The city acquired the land to build water reservoirs to supply the growing city of New York. According to the legal arguments of the city of New York, the Bishop's land had no value while according to the legal arguments of the Bishop family the land was everything to them.
- Subjects
CATSKILL Mountains (N.Y.); NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State); ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); EMINENT domain; BISHOP family; PROPERTY rights; LAND use
- Publication
New York History, 2006, Vol 87, Issue 4, p400
- ISSN
0146-437X
- Publication type
Article