United States v. Newark Meadows Imp. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
Demurrer to an indictment of the Newark Meadows Improvement Company and others for illegally dumping “two pockets of mud5 into the “tidal waters of the lower bay of the New York Harbor and its adjacent waters” at a place 2% miles from the Sandy Hook shore and one-quarter of a mile east-southeast of the inner South Channel Buoy.
1Opinion of the Court
HOUGH, District Judge.
This indictment is framed under Act June 29, 1888, c. 496, 25 Stat. 209, and Act Aug. 18, 1894, c. 299, § 3, 28 Stat. 360 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3534), and the place of dumping accurately specified, confessedly in order to test on demurrer the jurisdiction of this court. Said place so described is within a marine league of that portion of the coast of New Jersey known as Sandy Kook. The point on Sandy Hook nearest the dumping place is within the national military reservation containing Ft. Hancock. Admittedly, however, the cession of Sandy Hook by New Jersey to the…
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