Cleveland v. Citizens Gas Light Co.
New Jersey Court of Chancery
This cause came up on the argument of a rule that the defendants show cause why an injunction should not issue to restrain them from erecting or carrying on their gas works at the place on which they had begun to erect them, or in the neighborhood of that place. The argument was had upon the bill and answer of the gas company, and the affidavits attached to them, and upon depositions taken by both parties, under an order for that purpose.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The complainants in this case own, as tenants in common, four brick houses, occupied as dwellings, in Lombardy street, in the city of Newark. Some of these are occupied by the complainants themselves. They are designed, and suitable for dwellings for respectable and wealthy families, but are not the most costly or elegant in the city; yet are fully equal to the average of dwellings occupied by such families. The rest of Lombardy street, which extends from Front to Broad street, is built up with dwelling-houses of about the same class, which are inhabited by wealthy and…
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