Bridgewater v. Ocean City Railroad
New Jersey Court of Chancery
On bill, answer and proofs. The complainant is .the owner of two lots of land in Ocean City, Nos. 474 and 475, on the northwesterly side of Asbury avenue, between Ninth and Tenth streets, by purchase through an intermediate grantee from the Ocean City Association. There is a dwelling-house on the lots, in which the complainant resides, with his family.
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On bill, answer and proofs. The complainant is .the owner of two lots of land in Ocean City, Nos. 474 and 475, on the northwesterly side of Asbury avenue, between Ninth and Tenth streets, by purchase through an intermediate grantee from the Ocean City Association. There is a dwelling-house on the lots, in which the complainant resides, with his family. He filed his bill of complaint against the Ocean .City Railroad Company and the Atlantic City Railroad Company, who are subsequent grantees of the Ocean City Association of a strip of land lying at the southeast side of Haven avenue, between…
1Opinion of the Court
Grey, Y. C.
The defendant railroad companies contend, in the first place, that neither by action nor speech of a binding character did the Ocean City Association devote, the lands lying between Fifth and Sixth streets on its plan of lots, from the thoroughfare to the ocean, to use as an open space for camp ground and park purposes, and that no implication of a covenant by the association to that effect should be raised. The foregoing recital of the evidence on this point, parol and documentary, throws light upon the plan of the association and the reservation of the camp ground, &c.
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