Veghte v. Raritan Water Power Co.
New Jersey Court of Chancery
This case was argued on final hearing, upon pleadings and proofs. The facts of the case fully appear in the Opinion of the Chancellor.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The suit is brought by seven complainants. The defendants are the proprietors of a dam across the Raritan river, *144and a raceway leading from the dam, which discharges the waters from the pond above the dam into the river, some three miles below. The bill complains that the defendants are about unlawfully to raise and tighten their dam, and to enlarge the head-gates opening into the raceway, and that thereby the water above the dam will be raised, and the | whole of the water of the river, or a larger part than here- \\ tofore, will be diverted from the natural channel of the…
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