Newark Aqueduct Board v. City of Passaic
New Jersey Court of Chancery
On order to show cause why an injunction shall not issue to restrain the defendant from discharging proposed sewers into the Passaic river.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The complainant is a corporate body composed of commissioners who are from time to time elected by the legal voters of the city of Newark, and is charged, by statute, with the control and management of the supply of “ pure and wholesome water ” for that city. Among other powers conferred upon it, is authority to maintain a suit at law or in equity for injury, trespass or nuisance to water-courses and apparatus connected with the water-works which are confided to its care. P. L. of 1860 p. 442.
By an act of the legislature, passed in the year 1800, a corporation known as The…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Inhabitants of Brookline v. MackintoshMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1882
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