Breed v. City of Lynn

This is a bill in equity by the owner of a wharf and dock in the city of Lynn, bounding on Lynn harbor, for a nuisance, in discharging filth, through a common sewer constructed by the defendant, into the plaintiff’s dock, and thereby partially filling it up and rendering it unfit for navigation. The bill prays for a perpetual injunction against so maintaining the sewer that its contents shall be discharged into the plaintiff’s dock; for a decree that the defendant be required either to discontinue the *368use of the sewer, or to make such change in its construction as to cause it to discharge its…