Dewey Land Co. v. Stevens
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On appeal from a decree of the court of chancery made by the chancellor.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
SwAyze, J.
This is a bill to quiet title to land formerly under the waters of the Atlantic ocean. The bill originally filed claimed title by accretion. This claim was abandoned and by an amended bill, *315the complainants set up title by deed from former owners. The theory of the bill is that the land was fast land in 1853; that the ocean afterward covered it, and then receded leaving it fast land as before, so that the former title revived. The defendants claim under a riparian grant from the state on June 38th, 1900. The chancellor conceived himself bound…
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