Benton Gravel Company v. Wright

This appeal involves injuries to real estate caused by blasting. Appellee filed this action for damages against appellant, alleging; that she was the owner of a house and lot in Benton, Arkansas; and that appellant, in removing gravel from its nearby land, used dynamite in blasting and “negligently caused the well of the plaintiff on her property to go dry and muddy and ruin ‘the water therein for her own use, . . . and, because of said blasting, plaintiff’s house, located on said property, which is her home that she resides in, has been shaken and moved about on its foundations,” to…