Plymouth Gold Mining Co. v. Amador & Sacramento Canal Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOE THE DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. ERROR TO THE SAME COURT. This was a motion to dismiss, to which was added a motion to affirm. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
The Amador and Sacramento Canal Company, a California corporation, brought suit in the Superior Court of Sacramento County, California, against the Plymouth Consolidated Gold Mining Company, a New York corporation, and Alvinza Hayward, E. L. Montgomery, and Walter S. Hobart, citizens of California, to enjoin them from polluting the waters running into the canal of the Amador Company, and to recover $25,000 damages for what had already been done in that way. The material averments in the complaint, as to the alleged wrongful acts of the defendants, are as follows :
“ III. That the plaintiff is,…
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