Horton v. Fulton
Supreme Court of Georgia
Injunction. Before Judge Wright. Floyd superior court. August 20, 1907.
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, P. J.
This was a petition by seven landowners to enjoin the defendants, who operated a sawmill, from dumping sawdust into a non-navigable stream, which traversed the several tracts of land of the plaintiffs. It was alleged that the effect of throwing the sawdust in the stream was to pollute the water so as to render it unfit for farm use, and that no other stream ran through the lands of the plaintiffs. It was further alleged that the dumping of the sawdust in the stream caused the water to overflow its channel, and to spread the sawdust in large quantities over the plaintiff’s lands, .seriously…
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