Legal Opinion

Meaney v. Stork

New Jersey Court of Chancery

Decided May 9, 1912PublishedCited by 14 opinions

Heard on bill and supplemental bill, answers, replication and proofs in open court.

1Opinion of the Court

Garrison, V. C.

This is a bill filed to enforce a building restriction. The lands in question lie in a place named Eldorado, at Weehawken, Hudson county, this state.

The complainants and the defendant are owners of adjacent lots at that place, claiming through a common source of title, the complainants’ title having left the common grantor first.

The restriction in question reads as follows:

*62“That neither he nor they will erect or permit to be erected on any lot any building within ten feet of the line of the street, avenue or place upon which said lots front, but shall keep said strip of land…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Goater v. ElyNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1912

3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Ward v. Prospect Manor Corp.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1926
  2. Wardlaw v. Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1945
  3. Himmel v. HendlerCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1931
  4. Spencer v. MaverickCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1941
  5. Van Name v. Federal Deposit Ins. Corp.New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1941

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