Commonwealth v. Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co.

Kun, J.,

The bill in this case was filed in the name of the Commonwealth ex relatione the Attorney General and the City of Philadelphia, jointly as plaintiffs, against 24 coal companies as defendants, charging each specifically with unlawfully discharging into the Schuylkill River or its tributaries coal silt and refuse allegedly affecting navigation on the river and, by such pollution of the water, endangering the life, health, and safety of the people of Philadelphia with respect to their water supply by interfering with the operation of the city’s reservoir and pumping stations causing a…