The Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte has won a court battle over a former cigarette-making factory on highway 49.
On Monday, January 11, the Band Council and representatives for former property owner Andrew Clifford Miracle, were in front of a judge in Belleville, discussing the future of the property, near highway 2.
The site was an operational factory, until several pieces of cigarette manufacturing equipment were taken from the property.
After both sides were heard, Justice Michael J Quigley ruled in favour of the band, granting it the title to the property.
Andrew Clifford Miracle must remove items off the property before February 15 and is also ordered to pay the band $20,000.
He is also ordered to stay away from a possible auction the band may hold on the property
The property was turned over, after the courts previously ruled Miracle owed the band $870,000 for another property on Highway 2.