Glasgow v. City of Altoona
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal No. 148, Oct. T., 1903, by plaintiff, from judgment of O. P. Blair Co., Oct. T., 1899, No. 75, on verdict for plaintiff in case of James P. Glasgow v. City of Altoona. Trespass to recover damages for injuries resulting from the pollution of a stream. Before Craweord, P. J., specially presiding. The facts appear by the opinion of the Superior Court.
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Appeal No. 148, Oct. T., 1903, by plaintiff, from judgment of O. P. Blair Co., Oct. T., 1899, No. 75, on verdict for plaintiff in case of James P. Glasgow v. City of Altoona. Trespass to recover damages for injuries resulting from the pollution of a stream. Before Craweord, P. J., specially presiding. The facts appear by the opinion of the Superior Court. The court charged in part as follows: [What is the character of the injury inflicted on him by such pollution as may be directly attributable to the city ? In the light of all the facts before you is there any practicable or feasible means…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Beaver, J.,
Plaintiff’s amended statement alleges his ownership in fee of a certain farm and sawmill property, situate in Antes township, Blair county, having thereon erected a dwelling house, tenement house, barn, water power, sawmill and other necessary buildings, part of the said farm being cleared and highly cultivated and the larger part heavily wooded with timber suitable for sawing into lumber and convenient to the sawmill aforesaid; that the Little Juniata river, a nonnavigable stream, runs through its entire length; that, prior to the acts of the defendant complained of, the…
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