Glamorgan Iron Co. v. Snyder
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Mifflin county: Of May Term 1877, No. 21. This was an action of trespass on the case, brought by Joseph Snyder against The Glamorgan Iron Company, for damages alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff, in consequence of the negligent washing of defendant’s ore whereby the land of plaintiff was overflowed and a spring and a stream of water thereon were polluted. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of this court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward
At the January Term of the Mifflin Common Pleas in 1876, this cause was tried before Judge Junkin, President of the 41st Judicial District, in place of Judge Bucher, by whom the business of the court had been begun, but who had been called home by the death of a relative in Lewisburg. The trial resulted in a verdict in favor *399of the plaintiff below for $300. The defendants moved for a new trial, and at the succeeding term, in April 1876, the motion was argued. On the 3d of May 1876, in vacation, an opinion was filed by Judge Junkin, embodying an order for a new trial unless the plaintiff…
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