PHOENIX PINELANDS v. DAVIDOFF

DOCKET No. A-2823-16.

254 A.3d 1190 (2021)

467 N.J. Super. 532

PHOENIX PINELANDS CORPORATION, a New Jersey Corporation, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Harry DAVIDOFF, also known as Frederic Vail, Gideon Cranmer, James Nale, Administrator of the Estate of Gideon Cranmer, James Bodine and Cornelia C. Bodine, his wife, Job Corlis and Eliza Corlis, his wife, James Bodine, Cornelia Bodine, John Holmes and Emmor R. Wills, Administrator of the Estate of James Bodine, Cornelia Collins Holmes, Annie Holmes Bodine, Joseph Predmore, Adele Predmore, Marguerite Newton, Predmore Cox, Charles Roy Cox, Ellie Bodine Cox, Ella M. Clayton, Edgar Leslie Bodine, Alma Bodine Baker, Alma Bodine Baker Estate in Trust f/b/o Four Children of Charlotte Fielder Wade, Arthur Baker, Charlotte Fielder Wade, Benjamin Wade, Ellie Bodine, Joseph Rodgers Newton, Isabel Kinsell, Jessup Garron, Leon V. Garron, Edward C. Jessup, Marguerite Newton, Samuel Newton, Helen Newton, Nancy Jourdan, Donald Musser, Nicholas Newton, Ashton Bodine, Hattie E. Surran, Florence Newton McCall, Rachel Newton, Theodore L. Christopher, Cornelia Bodine, Harold Bodine, John R. Brinkerhoff, Isaiah Adams and Mary M. Adams, his wife, William A. Shepard, Nathan Hall, William A. Shepard and Caroline M. Shepard, his wife, Henry Shaw, Central Trust and Title Company by George H. Deller and H.M. Shaw, President, Meyer Beyer and Mathilda Beyer, Berman Herrman and Leon Kolmer, Sofie Herrman, Louisa Kolmer, George Orlov, Vera Orlov, Lydia Orlov, Victor Orlov, Martha Orlov, Jennie Orlov, Daisy Orlov, Raymond Orlov a/k/a Raymond Love, Elizabeth Orlov, Marie Orlov, Sam Gaines, Isaiah Adams, Meyer Beyer, Isadore Milkenstein and Rosa Milkenstein, Wolf Herskowitz, Samuel Shell, Louisa Schell, Samuel N. Schell, Samuel R. Schell, Anna Schell, William M. Schell, Marjorie Schell, William R. Schell, Denise Schell, Marianne Schell Kid, Eileen Schell Benkovic, Christopher Schell, Jacqueline Schell Gallo, William Schell, Michael Schell, Joshua W. Corlis, Lydia A. Cranmer, Harvey Corlis, Ellis Cranmer, Anna K. Acker and James R. Acker, h/w, Charles Russell, Helen Horn Lindgren, Edith Warren Kueppers and Robert Kueppers, her husband, Warren Stevens, Barbara R. Stevens, h/w, J&M Land Company, Charles DeSorte, Violet DeSorte, his wife, Barnegat Rifle and Pistol Club, Inc., Continental Searchers, Inc., Estate of Wolf Herskowitz, William Gibbs, trustee, Samuel Halpern and Paulina Halpern, his wife, Annie Saperstein and Harris Saperstein, her husband, Hyman Rosensohn, Bertha Boehm, Burlington Concrete Co., Mount Laurel Concrete Company, their heirs, devisees and personal representatives, and his, their or any of their successors in right, title and interest, unknown claimants, and their heirs, devisees and personal representatives, and his, their, or any other successors in right, title and interest, and First American Title Insurance Company, Defendants, and State of New Jersey, Department of Environmental Protection, Defendant-Appellant.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided April 29, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennifer L. Moriarty argued the cause for appellant ( Gurbir S. Grewal , Attorney General, attorney; Melissa H. Raksa , Assistant Attorney General, of counsel; Joan M. Scatton and Jennifer L. Moriarty , Deputy Attorneys General, on the briefs).

Michael R. O'Donnell , Morristown, argued the cause for respondent (Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti LLP, attorneys; Michael R. O'Donnell , of counsel and on the brief; Jorge A. Sanchez , on the brief).

Before Judges Accurso, Vernoia and Moynihan.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

The State of New Jersey, Department of Environmental Protection, appeals from a final judgment in this quia timet and ejectment action divesting it of its title to seven parcels of land in the Preservation Area of the Pinelands National Reserve, consisting of...

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