Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church v. Mayor of Hoboken

The Chancellor.

In 1804, John Stevens, who then owned a tract of land which is now the city of Hoboken, caused it to be laid out in blocks and lots, with streets and squares, by a map which he filed in the clerk’s office of the county of Bergen, in which Hoboken at that time was. The lots in the tract, or a large proportion of them, were afterwards sold by reference to that map. The Hoboken Land and Improvement Company, in whom the title of Stevens was vested by two deeds, dated in *3561846 and 1860, respectively sold and conveyed to the complainants part of a tract on said map, laid out as a…