American Cyanamid Co. v. Commonwealth

This appeal presents a question of authority as between the Commission of Game & Inland Fisheries, herein called the Commission, and the State Water Control Board, herein, called the Board, in a case of stream pollution.

The Commission caused two warrants to be issued against American Cyanamid Company, herein called the defendant, both charging it with casting noxious substances into Piney river in violation of section 3305(43) of the Code, 1942 (Michie), herein called the Fish Law.

The first warrant was issued October 16, 1946, charging a violation on September 5, 1946. On a hearing before the…