Blakeman v. Bourgeois
New Jersey Court of Chancery
On bill, answer and proofs. The bill in this cause is filed under the statute to compel the determination of claims and to quiet titles, &c.
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On bill, answer and proofs. The bill in this cause is filed under the statute to compel the determination of claims and to quiet titles, &c. Gen. Stat. p. 3486. The complainant asserts that she has the peaceable possession of a tract of land lying in Upper township, Cape May county, almost or quite an island, situate between Main, Beach and Middle thoroughfares and Carson’s sound, containing about three hundred and forty acres; that the defendant makes a false claim to the ownership of the tract, and prays that the defendant’s claim may be declared to be void, and her own title to be perfect.…
1Opinion of the Court
Grey, V. C.
The only question considered on this hearing was whether the complainant had such peaceable possession of the premises in dispute that she was entitled to file a bill to quiet title under the statute. Gen. Stat. p. 34-86.
That the acts of possession done by the complainant were peaceable — that is, free from all dispute or contention by any one — is undenied. Nothing in the case indicates that the defendants or those under whom they claim have ever had the possession of the premises themselves or that they have ever disputed the complainant’s possession in any way.
The defendants…
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