Supreme Court of New Jersey February 15, 1883 (State v. Driggs Drainage Co.)

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Van Syckel, J.

The controversy in this case relates to an order appointing commissioners, and a contract entered into by former commissioners with the Driggs Drainage Company, which purport to have been made by authority of the act entitled, “ An act to authorize the drainage of marsh and swamp lands,” approved March 17th, 1870. Pamph. L., p. 815.