Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. v. Urstadt Biddle Properties, Inc.

We transferred this case to this court on our own motion to decide the expiration date of a land use restriction prohibiting the plaintiff, The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company (Stop & Shop), from operating a supermarket or a discount store on its property (premises) that abuts land owned *286by the defendant, Urstadt Biddle Properties, Inc. (Urstadt). The restriction was created on February 13, 1970, and had a term of fifty years. Some thirteen years later, on February 15, 1983, the restriction was amended to delete the fifty-year term. Stop & Shop asserts that the thirty-year limitation imposed…