Nugent v. Hayes

This bill is to annul a Martin act tax deed for four and sixty-two hundredths acres of vacant land in the Newark meadows, and for a partition of the same. The meadows were first laid out for assessment purposes in 1888, and on the assessment map the land in question is designated as block 1393, lot 3; block 1394, lot 4; block 1395, lot 3, and block 1396, lot 6. It was first assessed for taxes in 1893 against Samuel Whitaker estate, and so up to 1908, when it was sold for the accumulated taxes, $44.25, under the Martin act, to Florence E. Cahill, who, after proceedings against unknown owners,…