Commonwealth v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Settle

Affirming.

By an indictment found and returned by the grand jury of Trimble county at the April term,' 1916, of the circuit court of that county, the appellee, Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, was charged, in substance, with the offense of creating and. maintaining a common *251nuisance by unlawfully and wilfully emptying and causing to be emptied large quantities of liquid ammonia and other deleterious and deadly liquids and substances into the waters of a running stream known as the Little Kentucky Eiver, near the town of Sulphur in Henry…