Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-17
DECEMBER COURT
The 0. J. Leigh-Dare Case Tried
at Court House This Week

The Decent Der term of the Cape May
County Courts was opened at Cape
May Court House on Tuesday. Su-
preme Court Justice Charles q. Black
presided and in charging the grand
jury said there was nothing 10 partic-
ular to call their attention to except the
usual number of petty attractions of
the law. He said hat former grand
juries had performed their work SO we'll
that there was but little business to
come before the body.
County Clerk Hildreth called the
names of the grand jury as follows:
Frank Bate, Hiram w. Godfrey,
Edmund l.. Rose, Walter S. Gof, Jas.
F. Eurtace, Jay 3 Garrison, William
Lipman, William Garrison, L. F.
Butts, Harry Sites, Isaac T%enenbaum,
w. r. Blaekman, James Corson, l.. 8.
LudIam, Lewis Powell, James Shoe
maker, Stephen Jefferson, William
Massey, Somers Barnett, Alfred Cooper,
Charles Sayre, Charles Powell, Gus
Hilton.
The Judge selected Leslie s. Ludlam
as foreman and appointed E. A. Bour-
geois as clerk of the grand jury. After
the retirement Of the grand jury Judge
Eldredge took up the license matters,
some OF the county licenses ex piring
for the year. The license of John
Moore for the Inlet Hotel at Angle
sea was renewed for another year,
the court hearing no objection, as
was also that Of Frank B. Wrisley for
the Union Hotel on Holly Beach ave-
nue. The license for the Continental
hotel, owned by L. f. Williams, was
renewed, but to a new person, the APP
plicant being George Thurber, who has
been an employee of Williams. The
transfer of Lewis Bishops license from
the old Hereford House to bis new
concrete block building on the corner
Of New Jersey and Walnut
was allowed. There was no objection
to any of these requests. After dis
posing of these matters Judge Eldredge
retired and Circuit Court Judge How
ard Carlow commenced trying the case
of Mary f. Leigh rs. James A. Dare,
ct al, involving the ownership of a
valuable strip OF land in Wild wood at
the corner of Cedar and Pacific ave-
nues. This suit has been in the courts
for over three years. The disputed
atrsH 10 onIrx aro foot uui6o M tho 0nrnar
and widens out to about five feet along
the Cedar avenue side of the street to
the Geisenberger property. The two
lots at this corner are owned by Ed
ward F. Howard, who leases the ground
10 the Daas.- for q fruit store. There is
\ barber shop, a clothing store and a
liquor store on the two lots. Howard
claims ownership of the narrow strip,
which is disputed by Mary F. Leigh,
wife of Oliver ]. Leigh. Adverse pos
session was claimed by Howard COM
ing down from Joseph Taylor and the
old Holly Beach Land Co.
William 8. Darnell, a Camden law
yer, was the first witness, being on the
stand all Tuesday afternoon. He was
given precedence in order to take a
train for Buffalo that night. Was Sec
rotary of the old Holly Beach Land
Company from 1908 to the time Of its
dissolution in 1910. Joseph Taylor
was president until his death in 1907,
when he was succeeded by Latimer r.
Baker. Remembered a heated contro-
versy between John l.. Burk and Mr..
Taylor, both directors of the company,
as to the ownership of a triangular
piece of land. Taylor claimed to have
title to same and fenced it in about 1908
or 1904. Minutes of company way
back In 1885 showed that there was a
dispute as to the true line at the north
ern end of Holly Beach. This was at
the time that the Baker Brothers
bought the Wild wood tract and was
opening up Cedar avenue, the dividing
Inc between the old borough of Holly
Beach and the old borough of Wild
wood.
James A. Dare, the next witness,
mind for oyer two years, was assisted
10 the stand. Was one OF the defen-
dants i'm his case and carried on the
store business on Howard's ground
with his two sons. Had known the
property for twelve years and used 1t