Greer v. Van Meter
New Jersey Court of Chancery
Ou bill for injunction. This bill is filed to enjoin the defendants from closing a window in a building belonging to the complainants. The complainants own a lot of land in Salem, on the corner of Market street and West Broadway. On it is a building known as the Starr building, entirely covering the surface of the lot. In dimensions the building is fifteen feet in width on Market street, and runs back the same width along West Broadway, a distance of fifty-four feet.
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Ou bill for injunction. This bill is filed to enjoin the defendants from closing a window in a building belonging to the complainants. The complainants own a lot of land in Salem, on the corner of Market street and West Broadway. On it is a building known as the Starr building, entirely covering the surface of the lot. In dimensions the building is fifteen feet in width on Market street, and runs back the same width along West Broadway, a distance of fifty-four feet. The east front of the building is, therefore, fifteen feet on Market street, and the south front is fifty-four feet on West…
1Opinion of the Court
Reed, V. C.
The question propounded in this case is, whéther the complainants are entitled to a perpetual injunction, restraining the *272defendants from building against the window of the complainants. The' deeds to the predecessors of the present parties, as-has been already observed, were cross-conveyances. Both parties to them were grantors and grantees. The unity of estate was-severed by an act which transferred the title in portions of the large parcel in severalty at the same, moment. This, however, cannot affect the import of these deeds, for, as the law now stands in this state, their…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Povey v. ReadyNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1917
- Gabriel v. GabrielNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1916
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- Cerra v. MaglioNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1925