The People of the State of New York, Respondent v. Steeplechase Park Company, Appellants, Impleaded With Another

Summary

The Court reversed the lower court’s injunction as to the lands granted to Mrs. Huber in 1897, holding that a patent for lands under water cannot be attacked in a collateral injunction action and that the grant conveyed an exclusive fee simple title; the remainder of the judgment was affirmed. Willard Bartlett, concurring, agreed with the reversal regarding the Huber grant but expressed reservations about the scope of the state’s power to convey foreshore lands.