S. O. & C. Co. v. Ansonia Water Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to enjoin the defendant from maintaining its dams and diverting the waters of Beaver Brook and its tributaries, and for damages, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Robinson, Jfacts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff. Beaver Brook is a nonnavigable watercourse flowing into the Naugatuck River in Ansonia.
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Suit to enjoin the defendant from maintaining its dams and diverting the waters of Beaver Brook and its tributaries, and for damages, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Robinson, Jfacts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff. Beaver Brook is a nonnavigable watercourse flowing into the Naugatuck River in Ansonia. The plaintiff owns a tract of land upon the river and near to the mouth of the brook, upon which is situated its factory, operated by it for manufacturing purposes, and requiring the use of considerable quantities of…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
The plaintiff, by its complaint in two counts, seeks legal relief in the form of damages and equitable relief by way of an injunction, on account of an alleged invasion, and threatened invasion, of its rights to the natural and unpolluted flow of the waters of a nonnavigable watercourse, known as Beaver Brook, and on account of other injuries alleged to have been received and to be threatened through the defendant’s conduct, past and proposed, in respect to the waters of an alleged tributary thereto, called Parker Brook. The delict set out in the first count consists of the diversion and…
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