State v. Shaw

The relators, the board of health of Caldwell township, bring this suit to enjoin the defendants from interfering with the relators in clearing out a ditch through the lands of defendants. The ditch in question is part of one running through the lands of defendants and in length is about seven thousand two hundred feet. At least part of the land of defendants is low and soggy. The portion running through their lands is an old ditch which has been partly filled up with debris and in addition has recently been blocked in one part by the defendants who filled it so at to enable them to cross it.…