Buzby v. Rose

This matter comes to me on an order of reference after exceptions to a master's report, which report was based on testimony taken ex parte.

Complainant filed a bill to foreclose and, no defense to the mortgage having been urged by any answering defendants, the matter was referred to a special master.

The facts are briefly these:

The bill to foreclose covered a lot in Ventnor City, New Jersey, having a frontage of thirty-eight feet and of that width to the high water line of Inside Thoroughfare, a navigable stream in which the tide ebbed and flowed. The mortgage was dated December 2d 1926, and…