Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church v. Mayor of Hoboken
Supreme Court of New Jersey
In ejectment. On motion for a new trial. In 1784, Col. John Stevens became, by purchase from Cornelius Harring, agent for the sale of forfeited estates, the owner of a tract' of land containing five hundred and sixty-four acres, then in the township of Bergen, in the county of Bergen, upon which the city of Hoboken has since been built. Having in view the projection of a city on this tract of laud, Col. Stevens procured the making of a map by one Charles Loss.
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In ejectment. On motion for a new trial. In 1784, Col. John Stevens became, by purchase from Cornelius Harring, agent for the sale of forfeited estates, the owner of a tract' of land containing five hundred and sixty-four acres, then in the township of Bergen, in the county of Bergen, upon which the city of Hoboken has since been built. Having in view the projection of a city on this tract of laud, Col. Stevens procured the making of a map by one Charles Loss. This map was made in 1804, and was filed in the clerk’s office of the county of Bergen on the 8th of April, 1805. A certificate of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Depue, J.
This ejectment is brought to recover the possession of a lot of land embraced in a deed to the defendants, made by the Hoboken Land Improvement Company, on the 1st day of October, 1846.
The plaintiffs claim under a dedication of the whole plot, of which the premises in question are a part, marked on the Loss map as square, to public uses, alleged to have been made by Col. John Stevens in his lifetime.
The defendants make title under a deed of conveyance made to them by the Hoboken Land Improvement Company, who were, at the time of the…
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