Watson v. Colusa-Parrot Mining & Smelting Co.
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Deer Lodge County; Welling Napton, Judge. Action by J. W. Watson et al. against tbe Colusa-Parrot Mining & Smelting Company for damages arising out of injury to lands and crops by reason of the discharge of poisonous and deleterious matter into a stream. Prom a judgment and an order denying a new trial, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
MR. COMMISSIONER.OLAYBERG
prepared the opinion for the court.
Appeal by defendant from a judgment and an order overruling its motion for a new trial.
Plaintiffs claim to be the owners of certain agricultural lands situated on Deer Lodge river below defendant’s concentrating, smelting and reduction plant, and allege that defendant has polluted the water of Silver Bow creek, a tributary of Deer Lodge river, by the operation of its plant, to such an extent as to render such waters unfit for irrigation or domestic use; that the refuse and deleterious substances deposited in the stream by defendant…
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