Herold v. Columbia Investment & Real Estate Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, Chiee-Justioe.

The case made by the pleadings and supported by the proofs is as follows:

The defendant, the Ridgefield Land Company, was, in the year 1898, the owner of a tract of land in the county of Bergen, which it had laid out into certain lots and streets delineated upon a map of the property, which was prepared under its direction, and filed by it in the office of the clerk of the county. On the 2d of December of that year it sold to Herold, the complainant, two of the lots shown on its map, namely, lots 10 and 12 in block G. Lot 10…