December 1884: The newly elected Legislature included “an unusually large number of lawyers,” the Law Journal editors noted. There were six in the Senate and 14 in the House of Assembly, and the prominent candidates for Senate president and House speaker were lawyers as well. “With all these lawyers in the Legislature, something ought to be accomplished in the way of revision of the law and the simplification of the practice,” the editors said, though making clear their doubt it would happen.
100 Years Ago
December 1909: The Court of Errors and Appeals tackled a subject never before decided in New Jersey: property rights in percolating underground water. Chancellor Mahlon Pitney found that the English common-law rule, which allowed an owner reasonable use of water on his land, did not prevent East Orange from sinking wells on property adjacent to Frank Meeker’s farm, which reduced his surface water. “They should take who have the power, and they should keep who can,” Pitney wrote.
75 Years Ago
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