Case Name: THE STATE v. FORD AND BALDWIN, SURVEYORS
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1791-04
Citations: 1 N.J.L. 64
Docket Number: 
Parties: THE STATE v. FORD AND BALDWIN, SURVEYORS.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 64–64

Head Matter:
THE STATE v. FORD AND BALDWIN, SURVEYORS.
1. For what causes court will quash an order of surveyors.
2. There must he notice to landlord and tenant.
3. A line of twenty-five years not to he disturbed,
4. Surveyors to go by the possession — not to alter a line on pretence of title.
Certiorari to remove the adjudication of a line fence between one Osborn and Minn, the tenant of Ogden.

Opinion:
The court quashed the order—
1st. Because the line was run without giving any notice to Ogden, and only four days to Minn, the tenant.
2d. Because the surveyors altered a line fence acquiesced in for twenty-five years.
3d. It was proved that, as the lands became improved, a fence had always been erected according to the old line.
4th. Under pretence of settling a line fence, the surveyors have tried a title.
Cited in Miller v. Barnet, 2 South. 550.