East Jersey Water Co. v. City of Newark

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Kalis ch, J.

A motion was made to strike out the bill of complaint filed in each cause upon several grounds, which, collectively, in legal effect, rested upon the single ground of want of equity in the bill. As the same legal question was involved in both cases they were heard together by the learned vice-chancellor, who made an order in each case striking out and dismissing the bill of complaint for want of equity, and it is from these orders that appeals were taken to this court and argued together.

The bills filed by the complainant in the court below…