State v. Cooper

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Jacobs, J.

The Law Division rendered a declaratory judgment in which it determined that the defendant Borough of Port Lee was entitled to no compensation whatever and that the individual defendants were entitled to only nominal compensation by reason of the State Highway Commissioner’s taking of the lands described in the complaint. The defendants appealed to the Appellate Division and we certified on our own motion.

On July 30, 1851 a “map of the property of Joseph Coyte near Port Lee in the Township of Hackensack in the County of Bergen and State of…