Legal Opinion
Mayor of Cambridge v. Dean
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 8, 1938PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLummus, J.
The defendant maintains a piggery partly in Lincoln and partly in Waltham, adjacent to a tributary of Stony Brook which forms part of the water supply of Cambridge. He has no written consent and permission from the board of health of Lincoln under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. Ill, § 151. He has permitted garbage and other offensive matter to accumulate on his land and to escape there*175from into the tributary of Stony Brook and to pollute its waters. The foregoing were in substance the allegations of the bill which was taken for confessed against the defendant early in 1933 because of his failure to…
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