Weston Paper Co. v. Pope

— Appellees sued the appellant, a corporation, for damages and for an injunction forbidding the discharge into Brandywine creek of the putrescible, fermentable and otherwise deleterious waste from the appellant’s straw-board works situate on the border of said creek near the city of Greenfield in Hancock county.

Appellees own a farm of 160 acres located on both sides of the creek at a point three miles below appellant’s works, upon which for thirty years they have resided and engaged in the business of farming and stock-raising. The lands contiguous to the stream are used foj-grazing-farm…