Slingerland v. Gillespie

*93The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummeke, J.

The plaintiff is the daughter of one Andrew J. Slingerland, who owns a farm at Pompton Plains, through which the pipe line of the East Jersey Water Company now runs. When that pipe line was being constructed the company sought to obtain Slingerland’s consent to lay it across his farm. Failing in this they caused proceedings to be instituted for the condemnation of a strip thirty-three feet wide and about six hundred feet long, as a right of way for their line. At the conclusion of those proceedings, and before the water company had entered…