Holmes v. Mayor of Jersey City

*300The Chancellor furnished to the court the following opinion.

Williamson, C.

In the year 1835, Cornelius Yan Yorst laid out a large tract of land, adjoining Jersey City, in the county of Hudson, into building lots. Streets were run thi’ough at convenient distances, and public squares laid out on a map designating the property. Among other streets, one called Grand street was designated on the map, and delineated as a street eighty feet wide. This map was filed in the county clerk’s office in the year 1847. These streets are now actually open. The larger portion of them have been paved, graded,…