Jessop v. Passaic Valley Water Comm.

Complainant, Jessop, the owner of a tract of land in Paterson bordering the Passaic river, uses the water of the river in his own business and the business of tenants upon his land. He complains that the defendant, Passaic valley water commission, unlawfully and to his injury, is diverting water from the river at a point above his property and he prays that the commission be enjoined from continuing to interrupt the natural flow of the waters past his premises or else that it cause his water rights to be condemned.

The Passaic valley water commission was formed in 1927, under the provisions of…