New York Court of Appeals

Joseph Perlmutter, Copartners, Under the Firm Name of Perlmutter Furniture Company, Respondents v. Frederick…

July 19, 1932259 N.Y. 327

Summary

The New York Court of Appeals held that the State Superintendent of Public Works may erect a screen on a state highway to block a private billboard, finding no implied easement of visibility for the adjacent landowner. The court reversed the lower courts' judgments and dismissed the complaint.