Soule v. City of Passaic

The Chancellor.

The o-bject of the bill is to have the defendant perpetually-restrained from discharging surface-waters from a section of the-city of Passaic known as “ North Passaic,” by means of drains,, into a ditch which runs through the complainants’, lands.

The property of the complainants is a portion of a considerable tract of low, marshy land, over which the city of Passaicextends and through which it has laid out and, to some extent-improved, streets. The evidence discloses that, for half a century or more, the Paterson plank road has run, from east to west, through this low land, and…