Threatt v. Brewer Mining Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Watts, J., Chesterfield, January, 1896. Action by Miles Threatt against Brewer Mining Company, for damages and injunction. The jury found verdict for plaintiff for $1,000. The following is the decree on the equity side: This cause came on for trial before me at the special term of Court in January, 1896, held for said county, and the issues as regarded the alleged nuisance and damages were duly submitted to a jury on the law side of the Court.
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Before Watts, J., Chesterfield, January, 1896. Action by Miles Threatt against Brewer Mining Company, for damages and injunction. The jury found verdict for plaintiff for $1,000. The following is the decree on the equity side: This cause came on for trial before me at the special term of Court in January, 1896, held for said county, and the issues as regarded the alleged nuisance and damages were duly submitted to a jury on the law side of the Court. The verdict was in favor of the plaintiff for $1,000 damages. During the progress of the case it was conceded by counsel that, pending this…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Pope.
Miles Threatt, in the year 1861, settled upon a farm of ninety-eight acres of laud, in the county of Chesterfield, in this State. He was a farmer, and by his efforts and skill he was enabled to support and rear a large family. Much of his dependence for raising corn and other grain was upon a piece of thirty-five or forty acres of bottom land lying on Fork Creek, near its mouth in Lynch’s River. In the year 1890, his crops were not sensibly injured, but in the years 1891 and 1892, his 'crops were ruined, and these results he attributed…
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