United New Jersey Railroad & Canal Co. v. Crucible Steel Co.
New Jersey Court of Chancery
Heard on bill, amended bill, answers and cross-bill, and replications and proofs. On May 17th, 1901, four owners of land, in the town of Harrison (formerly called East Newark), entered into a written agreement for the purpose of dedicating as a road a strip of land sixty feet in width, running across their respective lands.
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Heard on bill, amended bill, answers and cross-bill, and replications and proofs. On May 17th, 1901, four owners of land, in the town of Harrison (formerly called East Newark), entered into a written agreement for the purpose of dedicating as a road a strip of land sixty feet in width, running across their respective lands. The location of their lands and of this strip to be dedicated was, by recitals and covenants in the agreement, fixed with reference to one of the boundary lines (the most westerly) between two tracts then lying within the town, and called the Gilbert and Preston tracts,…
1Opinion of the Court
Emery, V. 0.
(after statement).
The substantial question of law -to be decided is the right of the complainants and of the defendant land company as against the defendant Crucible company under the agreement of 1901, to access over that portion of Cumberland street east of Fourth street, as laid down on the Gilbert map, to the “strip of land sixty feet in width, an extension of Cumberland street;” dedicated as a road across their respective lands. An objection was made in the answer of the steel company and the Hudson Railroad and Transportation Company, and repeated at the hearing, to the…
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