Its value depends upon its connection with the land adjacent to it and presumably the parties dealt with the property so as to derive the greatest value from it. For a like reason the presumption obtains that where land conveyed is bounded on an existing street the fee passes to the street center. ( Matter of Mayor, 20 App. Div. 404; affd., 155 N.Y. 638; Matter of Ladue, 118 id. 213.) There is no suggestion in the record that Long or any of his privies ever asserted any title to this strip, or supposed he had retained a beneficial interest therein.
This, we think, is the proper construction of this record title. The case is thus brought within the authority of Matter of Mayor ( 20 App. Div. 404), which was affirmed on the opinion of this court ( 155 N.Y. 638), where it was held that a deed, the description of which read, "Beginning at the northwest corner of lot number four, opposite the southeast corner of lot number one on the east side of Bloomingdale Road," conveyed the fee to the road. The deed from Mrs. Warner conveyed all the lands in which the grantor appears to have been interested in that vicinity. It unquestionably passed the fee to the westerly half of the highway, and no reason is manifest for reserving to the grantor the naked fee to the easterly half subject to the public easement.