Doremus v. Mayor of Paterson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

G-UMMERE, Cl-IIEE-JUSTICE.

The appeal in this case is from an order overruling a demurrer to the bill of complaint filed by the respondents. The object of the bill is to restrain the appellant from polluting the Passaic river with its sewage, unless and until it makes compensation to the respondents for the injury resulting therefrom to their respective property rights. The respondents are forty-three in number. Some of them are the owners of lands bordering upon the river above the ebb and flow of the tide therein. Others are the owners of lands…