Ocean City Ass'n v. Shriver
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error to the Supreme Court. This case was tried at the Atlantic Circuit and resulted in a verdict for the defendant, and is here on exceptions to the judge’s charge. The facts will be stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Depue, Chief Justice.
This was an action of ejectment brought by the Ocean City Association against "William Shriver to recover possession of a lot of land in Ocean City, lying between Ocean avenue and the Atlantic ocean.
The Ocean City Association is an incorporated land company. In 1880 it purchased a tract containing several thousand acres of wholly unimproved land lying between Peck’s Beach, in the county of Cape May, and the Atlantic ocean. On this tract a summer resort known as Ocean City has grown up.
Shortly after the purchase the association had…
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