40 A.D.2d 712 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1972
In an action to enjoin defendant (a) from preventing plaintiff from clearing for pedestrian use a right of way over defendant’s property to the high water mark of- Hempstead Harbor, upon which defendant’s property fronts (first cause of action), and (b) from interfering with plaintiff’s rights under the doctrine of “ jus publicum ” to use the land between the high and low water marks of Hempstead Harbor in front of defendant’s property (second cause of action), plaintiff appeals, as limited by his notice of appeal and his brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, entered April 19, 1972, as, after a nonjury trial, (1) dismissed the second cause of action, (2) enjoined plaintiff (upon a counterclaim) from reclining, or using or inducing others to do so, on the foreshore in front of defendant’s property, when the tide is out, other than to pass over it as a means of access between the upland and the waters of Hempstead Harbor, (3) limited plaintiff’s right to use the foreshore in front 'bf defendant’s property under the doctrine of “ jus publicum” to (a) “boating, bathing, fishing or other lawful purposes” when the tide is in and (b) “pass and repass over the foreshore as a means