STATE BY FURMAN v. Elizabethtown Water Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Jacobs, J.

The Appellate Division, in a full opinion by Judge Kilkenny, rejected the plaintiff’s appeal and the defendant’s cross-appeal from judgments entered in the Chancery Division. State v. Plainfield-Union Water Co., 75 N. J. Super. 571 (1962). We granted certification on petitions by the parties. 38 N. J. 498 (1962).

The State instituted custodial escheat actions against water companies which have been consolidated into the defendant Elizabethtown Water Company. It asserted various claims and obtained judgments which are described in the Appellate…