State v. Essex Public Road Board

The opinion of the court was delivered by

The Chancellor.

The writs of error in these cases bring up for review assessments made by the Essex Public Road Board upon the lands of the prosecutors in the town*367ships of Bloomfield and Montclair, in the county of Essex, for benefits conferred by the laying out and widening of Bloomfield avenue, in that county. Among the objections to the proceedings it is assigned for error that a proportion of the price at which the board purchased, from the Newark and Pompton Turnpike Company, its turnpike, which is part' of the avenue, was assessed upon the…