McAllister v. Atlantic City

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Bergen, J.

The relators hold an alternative writ of mandamus enjoining respondent to procure the title to all the land within the limit of a public park upon which a pier, known as Heinz Pier, is located, by condemnation, or otherwise, and to cause so much of the pier as is within the limits of the park to be wholly removed therefrom. The writ recites that in 1907 relators were the owners of a strip of land eighty feet wide, adjoining Rhode Island avenue, and extending southerly at that width to the exterior line established by the riparian…