Stevens v. Arnold
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey; Thomas G. Haight, Judge. Suit by Samuel F. Nirdlinger against Henry E. Stevens, Jr., in which Arthur S. Arnold and others, executors and trustees, were substituted as parties on the death of plaintiff. From a decree for complainants (262 Fed. 591), defendant appeals.
1Per curiam
This suit, instituted in the District Court to try the tditle to land made by accretions to fast land on the ocean front of Atlantic City, was brought under a statute of New Jersey (4 Comp. Stat. 5399) providing procedure almost the precise opposite of that of the common-law action of ejectment. It followed a like action brought with respect to the same land in the state court (Dewey Land Co. v. Stevens, 83 N. J. Eq. 314, 90 Atl. 1040), and there dismissed. The decree from which this appeal is taken overruled the defense of res adjudicata and determined the title to the land in question, in…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Dewey Land Co. v. StevensSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1914
- Nirdlinger v. StevensDistrict Court, D. New Jersey · 1919