Kasuba v. Graves

Shields, Supr. J.

The plaintiffs by a bill in chancery sought to enjoin the defendant from discharging water from his quarries, by means of pumps, so that it found its way into a brook and onto the lands, of plaintiffs, alleging among other things that thereby the defendant had caused an unnatural flow of water across their lands, including their barnyard, meadow and tillage lands; that the water washed away valuable earth onto the lands of others; and that, if permitted to continue, it' would cause irreparable injury to them by depositing refuse from the quarries on the premises and…