Van Ommen v. Hageman

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Minturn, J.

The action was tried in the First District Court of Newark without a jurj*, and judgment was rendered for $485. The fundamental question involved is one of jurisdiction, and the solution of that will be dispositive of the appeal.

The plaintiff was the lessee of a building in New York City, adjoining a building owned by the- defendant. Owing to a defective leader on defendant’s building, water seeped through the intervening party wall, and for the resulting injury plaintiff claims damages for expenditures in repairing the building, loss of…