Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Sanderson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna county : Of January Term 1885, No. 389. This was an action on the case brought by J. Gardner Sanggderson and Eliza McBriar his wife in right-of said wife against Pennsylvania Coal Company to recover damages susby her from the loss of a stream of water which flowed her grounds and which was rendered entirely useless domestic purposes by the defendants discharging mine water from their mines into it. Plea, not guilty.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna county : Of January Term 1885, No. 389. This was an action on the case brought by J. Gardner Sanggderson and Eliza McBriar his wife in right-of said wife against Pennsylvania Coal Company to recover damages susby her from the loss of a stream of water which flowed her grounds and which was rendered entirely useless domestic purposes by the defendants discharging mine water from their mines into it. Plea, not guilty. The facts of the case as they appeared upon the trial before Archbald, J. are sufficiently-set forth in the charge of the court…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
The Pennsylvania Coal Company is the owner of some sixteen hundred acres of anthracite coal land in the Lackawanna Valley, situate above the city of Scranton, in the basin of a small tributary of the Lackawanna river, known as Meadow Brook, into which, owing to the natural conformation of the surface, the water from these lands is drained. The company first opened the coal seams on this land by a drift, or tunnel, in the year 1867 or 1868: they drove three other tunnels and *143sunk a shaft, and thereafter mining operations were extensively engaged in: the establishment being known as the Gipsy…
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