State Highway Com. v. Golden

The state highway commission, in behalf of the State of New Jersey, seeks decree for specific performance of a contract whereby defendant agreed to convey to the state a four and one-half foot strip along the front of her premises, plus slope rights required for grading the eighty-foot wide state highway, route 33. The consideration to be paid by the state was $275 in cash, plus the elimination of an old concrete retaining wall and the grading, sodding and fertilizing of a bank or terrace along the new abutting front of defendant's premises and the construction of two sets of concrete steps…