Case Name: Phebe M. Dunning, appellant, v. James Kelly, respondent
Court: New Jersey Court of Chancery
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1890-06
Citations: 47 N.J. Eq. 324
Docket Number: 
Parties: Phebe M. Dunning, appellant, v. James Kelly, respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Equity Reports
Volume: 47
Pages: 324–324

Head Matter:
Phebe M. Dunning, appellant, v. James Kelly, respondent.
On appeal from a decree advised by 'Vice-Chancellor Van-Fleet, whose opinion is reported in Kelly v. Dunning, 16 Stew. Eq. 62.
Note. — By a typographical error the syllabus of this case was not printed in the usual form, and the point decided was not inserted in the index. For-the opinion, see 1 Dicte. Oh. Rep. 60S.

Opinion:
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.