Crosby v. City of East Orange

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Bergen, J.

The plaintiff is the owner of a tract of land on which there are two wells of water and through which flows a small stream called Bear brook. The defendant, owning property in the vicinity of plaintiff’s land, caused wells to be sank, from which it pumped subterranean water and disposed of it for commercial purposes. The plaintiff claiming tire abstraction of such water deprived his land of flowing aird subterranean water to such an extent that the diminution in quantity of the natural supply thereof so affected his land as to cause a serious…