Bennett v. Scott

The Chancellor.

This case appears to be one in which it is sought to try in the Court of Chancery a question which properly belongs to a legal tribunal for determination. The defendant claims a right by adverse user to maintain the cornice of his porch over the land of the complainants. This claim is contested by the *271complainants. The controversy has thus to do with purely legal rights concerning land. The sole justification for equity’s interference being the peculiar relief which it can afford by way of injunction, the case is one where the exercise of jurisdiction here ought, under well…