Mason v. Home Real Estate Co.

Backes, V. C.

This is a bill to- quiet, the title to a “Y”-sha.ped strip of land fronting four feet plus, on Watchung avenue, Plainfield, and extending forty-one feet plus, between houses of the complainant and defendant, called the Mason and Stevens houses. It was formerly a part of the lot of one Pound, the predecessor in title of Stevens. In 1844 Pound conveyed the strip to his.next-door neighbor, the predecessor in title of Mason. In 18'66 he sold his house and lot and conveyed it by the description of the original survey, failing to except the strip, and by that description, through mesne…