Mayor of Jersey City v. Morris Canal & Banking Co.
Supreme Court of New Jersey
An injunction having been granted, by the court below, this appeal was taken. The facts are fully stated in the opinions delivered. The opinion of the Chancellor will be found, ante 252.
1Opinion of the Court
*549The opinion of the court was read by
Whelpley, J.
The appellants claim that a strip of land in Jersey City, seventy feet in width and about one hundred in length, lying between the waters of the Morris canal, when filled, and what is admitted to be Hudson street, in said city, constitutes a part and continuation of said street, and that it extends in a southerly direction to the canal, and across it to the waters of the bay of New York; that Hudson street, before the erection of the works of the respondents, terminated at tide water, and that it is now entitled so to terminate.
The respondents…
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