Lester v. Highland Boy Gold Mining Co.
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from the Third District Court, Salt Lake County. — Ho». S. W. Stewart, Judge. Action to recover damages to growing crops. From a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs, the defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBartch, J.
This is an action to recover for damages to growing crops. Tire amended complaint herein was filed April 16, 1902, and it was alleged, in substance, that about June, 1899, the defendant company, having erected the Highland Boy smelter, began operations, and thereafter, to the commencement of this suit, reduced large quantities .of copper ores, and thereby caused to be emitted, from the smokestack of the smelter, smoke, gases, and fumes charged with various mineral substances, which were carried by the winds and deposited upon the farm of the plaintiffs, about a mile distant from the smelter;…
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