Wheaton v. City of Putnam

By this action the plaintiff, as owner of land in the town of Putnam, seeks injunctive relief and damages against the defendant incident to its maintenance of a public dumping ground easterly of the plaintiff’s land, which is alleged to constitute a nuisance and to have damaged the plaintiff by polluting his well and causing noxious smoke and gases to envelop his land. The court restricted its judgment for the plaintiff to an injunction against the defendant’s damaging the plaintiff by noxious smoke or gas from the burning of dump material caused by it or its agents. From this judgment the…