State v. Common Council of Belvidere

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Ludlow, J.

This certiorari went to the defendant and brings here for review an ordinance relating to the opening of Knowlton street, in the town of Belvidere, passed September 2d, 1895, and all proceedings concerning the same.

The prosecutrix is owner of some land in Belvidere, on Knowlton street, which the evidence shows was dedicated to public use as a street in 1825, by Garret D. Wall, who, then the owner of a considerable tract of land in Belvidere, New Jersey, filed or recorded in the clerk’s office of Warren county, June 7th, 1825, a map thereof,…