Ballantine v. Town of Harrison

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Beasley, C. J.

The appellants claim to be the owners of a tract of land including about four hundred and twenty feet of the east bank of the Passaic river, opposite the city of Newark. In the year 1869, they applied to the chosen freeholders for a license to build a dock in front of such lands, and having obtained the requisite authority they erected that structure, and by force of the bill which they exhibited in this case, they sought to prevent the respondent, the Town of Harrison, from extending a street over this dock down to the high-water line.…