Eckert v. Peters
New Jersey Court of Chancery
On bill &c. This is a suit to quiet title. The material facts are these: In the year 1868, Charles H. Green was the owner of two tracts of land in that part of Long Branch known as West End. One of these tracts was a fifteen-acre tract of upland lying on the westerly side of Ocean avenue, and the other a sea-front tract about half as large, lying on the easterly side of Ocean avenue, between that avenue and the sea.
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On bill &c. This is a suit to quiet title. The material facts are these: In the year 1868, Charles H. Green was the owner of two tracts of land in that part of Long Branch known as West End. One of these tracts was a fifteen-acre tract of upland lying on the westerly side of Ocean avenue, and the other a sea-front tract about half as large, lying on the easterly side of Ocean avenue, between that avenue and the sea. This latter tract lay to the south of and did not adjoin the former, there being a distance of at least five hundred feet between them. The upland tract had been farm land and was…
1Opinion of the Court
Stevens, V. C.
From the foregoing statement of facts it appears that, in 1868, one Green, being seized in fee of two lots — one a fifteen-acre lot not touching the ocean, and the other a sea-front lot, somewhat smaller — conveyed to one Sternberger. In his deed of conveyance, Green, after describing the fifteen-acre lot by metes and bounds, continued as follows:
“Together with the free use and full right of sufficient land on my sea front for bathing purposes, with the right to enter thereon, erect bath-houses and use the same free of charge, undisturbed at any time, to have and to hold * * *…
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