Borough of Spring Lake v. Polak

Howell, Y. 0.

Prior to 1877 Cephas M. Woodruff and Erederick H. Smith, Jr., acquired a tract of land in Wall township, Monmouth county, having the Atlantic ocean for its easterly boundary. The tract consisted of upwards of seventy-three acres. They caused a map of the property to be made upon which they delineated streets and avenues and divided the property into two hundred and forty-two building lots. Along the ocean front, and a short distance therefrom, they laid out on the map a street one hundred feet wide which is denominated Ocean avenue. The map shows that easterly of .Ocean avenue,…