Gregory v. Ingwersen

The Chancellor.

This is a bill for specific performance of a building contract, made September 11th, 1875. The parties were, at that time, as they still are, owners of adjoining land on Montgomery street, Jersey City. On each property there was then a building. The defendant, then intending to replace the building on his lot with a better one, desired, with a view to greater width for the new building, to obtain title for a strip five feet wide, of the complainant’s lot, adjoining his lot. ' The complainant’s building did not stand on that five feet, but there was on it an outside stairway of…