Phillips v. Library Co.
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On writ of error to the Supreme Court. The defendants were owners of a lot of land fronting on Union street, in the city of Burlington, upon which they had erected a two-story building. The defendants used the first story for a public library and reading-room. The basement was let by them for school purposes and public exhibitions.
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On writ of error to the Supreme Court. The defendants were owners of a lot of land fronting on Union street, in the city of Burlington, upon which they had erected a two-story building. The defendants used the first story for a public library and reading-room. The basement was let by them for school purposes and public exhibitions. The second story was leased to the Order of Red Men of ISTew Jersey by a lease made in 1866, renewed in 1869, in 1871 and in 1874, with the understanding that another society would use the room on one night in each week to help pay the rent. Under this arrangement…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Depue, J.
By the record sent up in this case it appears that the non-suit was granted on the ground that there was no evidence that the defendants had knowledge that any of their licensees had been taking any other way across their lot *310than that by the brick walk alongside the building, and that the plaintiff, having knowledge of the two ways by which she-might go, one of which was established by the defendants and the other selected by herself, and having elected to go by the-latter, is without remedy for the injury she received.
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