Union Trust Co. v. Goerke Co.

In 1910 John Voorhees, now deceased, leased the northwest corner of Broad and Jersey streets, Elizabeth, to the Goerke Company for forty years, with a renewal right of twenty more years. Demolishing an old structure then on the premises, the Goerke Company erected a six-story brick building covering the entire lot, eighty feet on Broad street and one hundred and forty feet on Jersey street, as it had agreed to do. The building became the property of the lessor under the terms of the lease. Eleven years later the Goerke-Kirch Company (assignee of the Goerke Company) leased from one Stein, for…