Haven Homes, Inc. v. Raritan Township

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Heher, J.

Plaintiff was given judgment in the Law Division of the Superior Court, mandamus in nature, directing the defendant municipality “to institute proceedings to condemn the water mains installed by the plaintiff” in streets laid out on a tract within the municipality developed for one-family houses. This, on the premise that the water mains constituted property of the plaintiff taken by the municipality in the exercise of the power of eminent domain for which compensation is required to be made by Article I, paragraph 20, of the 1947…