Fontainebleau Hotel Corp. v. Forty-Five Twenty-Five, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that even at common law, the landowner had no legal right in the absence of an easement to unobstructed light and air from the adjoining land
• stating that where a structure serves a useful and beneficial purpose it does not give rise to a cause of action regardless of the fact that it “may have been erected partly for spite”
• “[Wjhere a structure serves a useful and beneficial purpose, it does not give rise to a cause of action . . . regardless of the fact that the structure may have been erected partly for spite.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).