Hemsley v. Bew

The Chancellor.

The complainant seeks an injunction to restrain the completion of a jetty or dyke which is to extend into the ocean, a few feet below low-water mark, in front of the defendants’ upland, at Atlantic City, and within the limits of a grant to the defendants by the riparian commissioners of this state, on the ground that the jetty or dyke will create a continuing nuisance which will work irreparable injury to him. The injury, he insists, will be caused by obstruction of the natural flow of the ocean tides and littoral currents, resulting in eddies and new currents which will wash…