Williams v. Still

MERRILL, Justice.

Appeal from an interlocutory decree overruling demurrer to bill of ’complaint. The bill seeks to restrain and enjoin the pollution of a stream which runs through complainants’ pasture, and damages resulting from the emptying of gasoline, oil, grease and other substances from a filling station sewer into the stream, whereby “said water is rendered unfit for use, the water is made oily and greasy and noxious, unsanitary and unfit, or unwholesome for cattle to drink, and for domestic use, and depriving complainants of the lawful use of their property.”

Appellants first argue that…