Pelham Phosphate Co. v. Daniels
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages; from city court of Camilla — Judge Bush. March 33, 1917. •
1Opinion of the CourtWade, C. J.
1. - The plaintiff alleged that there was permanent injury to her freehold, on account of the pollution of a natural stream of water running through her lands, caused by the presence in it of various injurious poisonous chemicals and other refuse matter, produced by and coming from a fertilizer plant erected by the defendant at the head or beginning of this stream, at an alleged cost of about $3,000,000, and with a capacity of 30,000 tons of fertilizer per annum, and consisting of two large buildings, each “being from two to four hundred feet in length and from one [to] one hundred and fifty…
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