E.M. Harrison Market v. Montclair

The town of Montclair purchased a strip of land adjoining complainant's store and premises, and laid out Park street from Bloomfield avenue southerly to the next street, Church street, and as a result the complainant's property became a corner lot — the southeast corner of Bloomfield avenue and Park street. The new street is but forty-five feet wide, the length of complainant's lot, and from the rear of its lot to Church street it has a width of eighth-eight feet. When the street was laid out in 1924 the ordinance provided for a seven and one-half foot sidewalk on either side of the street.…