Bell v. Providence Gas Company

Each of the above named plaintiffs brought his suit in the Superior Court, alleging that the Providence Gas Company had in carrying on its business as a manufacturer of gas discharged into the waters of the Providence river certain deleterious substances which, carried down by the tides, were deposited upon his oyster bed and caused the death of his oysters.

The cases were tried to a jury in the Superior Court and a verdict in each case was rendered for the plaintiff.

Both cases came to this court upon the exceptions of the defendant. The defendant’s exceptions were all overruled, by a majority…