Gorham v. City of New Haven
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to enforce an order of injunction, previously granted, restraining the defendant from polluting a stream flowing through the dairy farm of the plaintiff, and also to enjoin the defendant from further attempts to take the plaintiff’s land by condemnation, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County where a demurrer to the prayers for relief and to the supplemental complaint was sustained (Reed, J.) and judgment rendered for the defendant, from which the plaintiff…
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Action to enforce an order of injunction, previously granted, restraining the defendant from polluting a stream flowing through the dairy farm of the plaintiff, and also to enjoin the defendant from further attempts to take the plaintiff’s land by condemnation, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County where a demurrer to the prayers for relief and to the supplemental complaint was sustained (Reed, J.) and judgment rendered for the defendant, from which the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtRoraback, J.
It appears from the plaintiff’s complaint that this action is one of four suits brought by the plaintiff against the defendant, to the Superior Court, in consequence of the pollution of a stream of water running across the plaintiff’s farm, by sewage and other noxious drainage from the Springside Home, where the poor of New Haven are kept. The first of these actions was tried in 1899, a judgment rendered for the plaintiff to recover damages, and an injunction granted restraining the defendant from continuing the nuisance. The second suit was commenced in 1904 and resulted in a verdict for the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Lyon v. LyonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1851
- Winslow v. NaysonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
- Welch v. BarberSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1884
- Church v. PearneSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1903
- Gorham v. City of New HavenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1907
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- Wehrhane v. PeytonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1948
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