Morrison v. Standard Oil Co. of N.J.

The complainant is the owner of a parcel of real estate at Atlantic Highlands, where the defendant has recently taken title to another piece of land upon which it has secured permission from the governing body of the borough to erect large tanks in which to store gasoline. The bill recites:

* * * "the keeping and handling of said products [petroleum products] will constitute not only a nuisance, but a continuing menace and danger in and about the neighborhood and locality thereof, in the Borough of Atlantic Highlands aforesaid, and there will be ever present the risk and danger of pollution of…