Ringle v. Board of Chosen Freeholders
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error to the Hudson County Circuit Court. It became necessary to take a parcel of land in the city of Jersey City, of which the plaintiff in error Jacob Tingle was the owner, for the construction of a public road, laid out and in process of construction, in virtue of the authority bestowed1 by a statute entitled “An act to authorize the board of chosen freeholders of any of the several counties of the state to lay out, open, construct, improve and maintain a public road…
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On error to the Hudson County Circuit Court. It became necessary to take a parcel of land in the city of Jersey City, of which the plaintiff in error Jacob Tingle was the owner, for the construction of a public road, laid out and in process of construction, in virtue of the authority bestowed1 by a statute entitled “An act to authorize the board of chosen freeholders of any of the several counties of the state to lay out, open, construct, improve and maintain a public road therein,” approved April 7th, 1888 (Pamph. L., p. 397), and the supplements thereto. That act provides that the value of…
1Opinion of the Court
*664The opinion of the court was delivered by
The Chancellor.
The insistment in behalf of the plaintiffs in error, in substance, is, that because the board of chosen freeholders did not appeal from the commissioners’ award they are not entitled to any benefit from the determination of the appeal, save the recovery of their costs, the finding of the jury being less than the commissioners’ award.
In support of this position, reliance is had upon the first proviso of that part of the law which has been quoted, to wit, that in “no case whatever” shall the board of chosen freeholders enter upon the land…
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