State ex rel. Board of Health v. Borough of Vineland

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, Chief-Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree of the court of chancery dismissing a bill of complaint filed in the name of the state on the relation of the state board of health, for the purpose of securing an injunction to restrain the borough of-Vineland from permitting the effluent from its sewage filtration beds to flow into the waters of a tributary of Maurice river, from which the city of Millville takes its water-supply. The bill is filed by the state board of health under the act of March 17th, 1899, entitled “An act to secure the…