Case Name: STEVENS v. ARNOLD et al.
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1921-08-02
Citations: 273 F. 1022
Docket Number: No. 2642
Parties: STEVENS v. ARNOLD et al.
Judges: Before BUFFINGTON, WO OLE Y, and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 273
Pages: 1022–1022

Head Matter:
STEVENS v. ARNOLD et al.
(Circuit Court of Appeal, Third Circuit.
August 2, 1921.)
No. 2642.
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.
Affirmed.
Carr & Carroll, of Camden, N. J., for appellant. Bourgeois & Coulomb, of Atlantic City, N. J. (Robert H. McCarter, of Newark, N. J., of counsel); for appellees.
Before BUFFINGTON, WO OLE Y, and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER 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 so far as it was affected by the claim of the defendant, to be in the plaintiff. The principles on which this decree was grounded were given by Judge Haight in an opinion written with great care and elaboration. (D. C.) 262 Fed. 591. As we are in complete accord with all his views, we find no occasion to repeat them in an opinion of our own. We therefore affirm the decree below on the opinion filed.