Schumacher v. Shawhan Distillery Co.

This suit was begun in the circuit court of Platte county July 5, 1906, against The Shawhan Distillery Company, a corporation, and George H. Baker, to recover damages for the pollution of* a natural water course which runs in a westerly direction over land in Weston occupied by the corporation in its business of manufacturing’ whisky, and thence over intermediate farms to the Missouri River. Plaintiff owned and, with his family, lived upon one of these servient farms. The stream crossed his pasture and supplied water to the live stock he kept thereon.

The petition, which was voluminous,…