Farley v. Crystal Coal & Coke Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Mercer County. Action by L. B. Farley against t^ie Crystal Coal & Coke Company and five others-. Demurrer to declaration overruled, verdict and judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
PoEEENBABQ-EB, JuD&E:
The judgment complained of, amounting to $1,650.00, stands upon a declaration in an action against six different coal mining corporations, whose mines and works are located at different places on tributaries of the Bluestone Biver, charging them with having polluted and defiled said river, by casting into it directly and indirectly cinder, coal, slag and other materials from their mines and coke ovens and fetid and putrid matter *597from their tenant houses and privies, and so altered its condition, by means of such deposits as to cause more frequent and disastrous overflows…
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