Richard v. Kaufman

BARD, District Judge.

Defendants filed motions to set aside the verdict and judgment thereon for plaintiff and to enter judgment in their favor or he granted a new trial.

This action was brought by the plaintiff to recover damages for depreciation in the value of a farm owned by her in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, because of a diminution of water in a spring thereon as a result of blasting operations conducted by the defendants on neighboring property. The defendants denied that their blasting operations, which were incidental to the construction of a tunnel, were the cause of diminishing the…