New Jersey Court of Chancery, 1890

Dunning v. Kelly

Dunning v. Kelly
New Jersey Court of Chancery · Decided June 15, 1890
47 N.J. Eq. 324
Dunning v. Kelly

Opinion of the Court

Decree awarded a perpetual injunction restraining the defendant from filling': up or obstructing a ditch through which the complainant’s lot was drained. The lots of the parties, respectively, lying within a city, in the neighborhood of city improvements, and the probability-being, that by the construction of sewers by the city the water from the complainant’s lot may be diverted into public-sewers, and his lot thereby relieved therefrom, the decree was amended, giving' defendant leave to apply, upon such an altered condition of affairs, to have-the injunction modified or discharged.

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