Nugent v. Hayes

Backes, V. C.

This bill is for the partition of waste lands in the great meadows at Newark. The fee was in Samuel Whittaker in 1818. The complainant acquired and owns one hundred and sixty-five two hundred tenths undivided parts. The defendants, other than Stewart Lindsley and John Erancis Cahill and wife, own the rest. Stewart Lindsley claims title to the tract under a tax deed executed by the comptroller of Newark to Mrs. Cahill (Lindsley’s grantor) by virtue of the Martin act. Comp. Stat. p. 5205. The property was sold for taxes in 1906. The comptroller conveyed to Cahill in 1909 upon an…