Tom Sawyer Motor Inns, Inc. v. County of Chemung
Tom Sawyer Motor Inns, Inc. v. County of Chemung
Opinion of the Court
Order affirmed, with costs.
Concur: Chief Judge Fuld and Judges Burke, Gabrielli, Jones and Wachtler. Judge Breitel dissents and votes to modify in the following opinion in which Judge Jasen concurs.
Dissenting Opinion
I would modify to reduce the rate of interest in the computation of the judgment from 6% to 3% as provided in section 3-a of the General Municipal Law, at the time the judgment was rendered.
This case does not involve an appropriation of an interest in property subject to the law of eminent domain. The reference in the dissenting opinion in Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co. (26 N Y 2d 219, 230) to an “ inverse condemnation ” was at best a metaphor to emphasize the dissenter’s view that a private corporation was in effect being granted a power of appropriation in eminent domain. A similar reference in Ferguson v. Village of Hamburg (272 N. Y. 234, 240) was again a mode of language to adapt a remedy, borrowed from cases where there was a kind of taking, namely, the diversion of waters.
This case, like the Boomer case
Accordingly, I dissent in part, and would reduce the rate of interest computed in the judgment to 3%.
Order affirmed.
The Boomer case, which started it all, involved private parties where, of course, the concept of condemnation is incongruous.
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