Department of Health v. Fort Lee

In April, 1929, the department of health of the State of New Jersey (being clothed with appropriate powers and duties in that behalf by virtue of several statutes duly enacted by the legislature), filed a bill of complaint in this court, alleging that defendant owned and maintained a sewerage system from which polluting material was permitted to discharge into the waters of Overpeck brook and a tributary thereof, in this state, polluting such waters so as to cause and threaten injury to the inhabitants of the borough of Leonia, in this state, and praying an injunction to restrain the…