Hecker v. New-York Balance Dock Co.

Roosevelt, Justice.

The plaintiffs, who are the owners of the Croton Mills, and a large amount of other real estate in the neighborhood of Pike Slip, on the East River, complain that the defendants, about a year ago, stationed in the slip a floating dock, permanently secured to one of the piers, greatly incommoding the plaintiffs’ business, increasing the expense of cartage, and impairing the value of their property, and they ask for a judgment of the court to abate “ the said nuisance,” as they call it, and to restrain the defendants, by injunction, from further obstructing or incumbering “…