Consolidated Safety Pin Co. v. Montclair

Tony's brook, a natural water course, has its source, and several branch sources, in the northwesterly section of Montclair, and runs, generally, southeasterly through the town and thence through Glen Ridge and Bloomfield, where it enters Second river, which empties into the Passaic. The natural drainage of all surface water of the town is southerly towards the brook, and all street grading, with the single exception involved in this litigation, conforms to the natural slope. Twenty-three drains of the town's underground surface water drainage system empty into the brook. As a part of the…