Legal Opinion
Sayre v. Mayor of Newark
New Jersey Court of Chancery
Decided March 11, 1899PublishedCited by 4 opinions
On bill, answer and proofs.
1Opinion of the Court
Reed, V. C.
The bill is filed to restrain the defendants from building a sewer, through which .the city of Newark proposes to discharge into the Passaic river, at a point fifty-five feet north from the property of the complainant, two million and sixty-five thousand gallons of house sewage every twenty-four hours. Marcus Sayre is the owner of a tract of land on the west side of the Passaic river in the city of Newark, adjoining on the south the property of the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company and the Centre Street bridge.
The property has a frontage of two hundred feet on the…
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