Kirchner v. Miller

The Chancellor.

The parties to this suit are the owners of adjoining lots of land in that part of Jersey City known as Greenville. The lots are-each of the dimensions of twenty-five feet front. The complainant, desiring to build an extension to the house on his lot, and wishing to build up to, or nearly up to, the line between his-lot and the defendant’s, employed a competent surveyor to locate-the line. The surveyor located it accordingly, driving stakes to-show where it was. One of these was at the front. The complainant built the extension nearly up to the line. About a year-after it was…