. Report [and] proceedings . QUESTION. 3. Stuart Hooey and Mrs. E. M. Tripp both bought half ofthe same lot on Dundas Street, Trenton. It is irregular in shapeand fronts on Dundas Street. A dispute arose when Mrs. Trippstarted to fence off her half. She took half the frontage and ran aline through at right angles. This left Hooey with less than halfthe area. He sued, and County Judge Deroche declared him en-titled to half the area. This left Mrs. Tripp with less than half thefrontage on Dundas Street. She appealed to the Divisional Court,which found the question so knotty that in giving judgme
. Report [and] proceedings . QUESTION. 3. Stuart Hooey and Mrs. E. M. Tripp both bought half ofthe same lot on Dundas Street, Trenton. It is irregular in shapeand fronts on Dundas Street. A dispute arose when Mrs. Trippstarted to fence off her half. She took half the frontage and ran aline through at right angles. This left Hooey with less than halfthe area. He sued, and County Judge Deroche declared him en-titled to half the area. This left Mrs. Tripp with less than half thefrontage on Dundas Street. She appealed to the Divisional Court,which found the question so knotty that in giving judgment allthree judges forgot that they have recently acquired a stenographer,and wrote their judgments by hand. The hand-made judgment, however, are full of Solomons wis-dom. The Court declares that everybody has been wrong, and sothere shall be no costs. The line shall be drawn from the middle ofthe frontage parallel to the sides as far as the lot is regular, andwhere the irregularity commences in the rear of the lot, the line
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