Manufacturers' Land & Improvement Co. v. City of Camden

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

The relator prays for a mandamus requiring the city to take proceedings for ascertaining and assessing, through commissioners, the damages which the relator sustained by reason of the change of grade of Broadway, in front-of the relator’s property, according to a city ordinance passed December 10th, 1903. On a part'of this property there are buildings known as No. 2224 Broadway, and in pursuance of proceedings taken by the city under the act of May 7th, 1889 (Pamph. L., p. 378), which entitles the owners of buildings in cities to damages…