Case ID: njl_136/html/0193-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Pee Cubtam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL COMPANY, RELATORS-RESPONDENTS, v. VINCENT J. MURPHY, JOHN A. BRADY, MEYER C. ELLENSTEIN, JOHN B. KEENAN, RALPH A. VILLANI, AND CITY OF NEWARK, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, RESPONDENTS-APPELLANTS.
    Argued May 20, 1947
    Decided September 12, 1947.
    For the relators-respondents, Hannoch & Lasser (Herbert J. Hannoch and Morris Weinstein, of counsel).
    For the respondents-appellants, Thomas L. Parsonnet (Joseph A. Ward, of counsel).
   Pee Cubtam.

This case is controlled by our decision to-day in the case of Brown v. Murphy, 136 N. J. L. 183.

The only distinction is that the city, in this case, pursuant to statutory authority (R. S. 40:179-34), established and constructed a seaport and industrial terminal and the lands of the respondents were incorporated therein, and that the city was given the power to condemn by R. S. 40:179-34.

The judgment under appeal is affirmed.

For affirmance — The Chancellor, Bodine, Donges, Colie, Wachenfeld, Eastwood, Burling, Wells, Dill, Freund, McGeehan, McLean, JJ. 12.

For reversal — None,