The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-03-06
PASSA|C POLLUTION.
Decision In It's Three Cases
Will Be Given Monday
By Court Of Errors
and Appeals.

Especial to "The Jersey City News. ~
TRENTON, March 6, 1900.-Nearly half
hundred cases were decided in the Court
of Errors and Appeals yesterday. After
a general conference in the morning the
reading of opinions in cases argued at the
last term was begun and was continues
until almost he hour of adjournment in
the afternoon. In the absence of tbs
Chancellor, Chief Justice Magic presided
The Chief Justice announced that &c
cisions would not be handed down unit
next Monday in the three cases now pend
ing, which involved the pollution of TIE
Passaic River These are the sui.s
brought by the Marcus Sayre Manufac-
turing Company, of Newark, against the
city of Newark and of the State, through
the Attorney General, against the city of
Paterson. In each instance the object is
to restrain certain sewering into the
Passaic River, and much interest in the
decisions prevails in the northern section
of the State.
The Court of Errors, is an opinion by
Justice Garrison reverses the Chancery
decision which dismissed a petition filed
by Congressman A. c. LoudenSlager in
the proceedings instituted by the Wood
bury Heights Land Company. Congress
man Loudenslager sought to have an Off
set allowed in the judgment recovered
against him by the land company.
While not deciding that this OFFSET
should have been allowed the Court of
Errors holds that stay should nave been
granted on the judgment pending dee
Termination of the petition in court of
law.
of the officers of the company and the
claim was made that he had obtained an
option on some land and had then dis
posed of it to the land company at an
enhanced value.
The New Jersey Historical Society
scored victory in its fight to retain con-
troll of the Newark Library Association,
whose building it wishes to convert into
a State headquarters. The fight got INTO
the courts through the election OF rival
sets of directors by the two factions of
the Library Association. The Supreme
Court decided in favor of the directors
elected by the faction opposed to the HIS
torical Society. This decision is set aside
by the Court of Errors.
The Historical Society, through pur,
chase or Donation had secured control
Of majority of the shares of the Library
Association. The minority stockholders
sought to retain control of the ASSOCIATION
py relying upon the regulations OF the as
sociations old charter prescrlblng the
manner of electing its directors BY the
system thus prescribed only a limited
number of votes were accorded to large
This contention of the minority was sus-
tanned by the Supreme Court. but the
Court of Errors decides that the terms
of the charter are superseded by the act
of 1897. which gives a stoekho.der a vote
for every share of stock in his name. Inc
Historical Society will therefore be able to
control the association as long as it con-
troIs, a majority of the shares of stock.
The Court of Chancery is sustained
in refusing to grant a divorce to Mrs.
Lille c. Endcott from her husband,
Dr.. George W. Endicott, a prominent
physician of Plainfield and we1l-known in
fashionable society in that city: Mrs.
Endicott charged her husband with being
too Intimate in his relations with certain
of his female patients.
The conviction of Albert Mayer in
Hudson county, for practising medicine
without certificate. is sustained. one
taken was that the indictment was de. de-
fective. and another that there was error
in admitting testimony that Mayer used
the term DIR" in advertising his pro-
fession. The Court decides that the in
dictment was not defective; that the evi,
dence in question was admissible: ana
that the fact of his designating himself
as DR. was sufficient to warrant this
conviction.
Decisions were given in large number
of other cases which were without gen
aral interest.