Standard Plate Glass Co. v. Butler Water Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 115, April Term, 1897, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Butler Co., Sept. T., 1895, No. 13, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass. Before Barker, P. J., of the 47th judicial district, specially presiding.
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Appeal, No. 115, April Term, 1897, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Butler Co., Sept. T., 1895, No. 13, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass. Before Barker, P. J., of the 47th judicial district, specially presiding. Trespass by the Standard Plate Glass Company, a corporation engaged in the business of manufacturing plate glass against the Butler Water Company, an upper riparian owner, to recover damages alleged to have been suffered by the plaintiff company as a riparian owner by reason of the diversion of the waters of a creek by the defendant company. Other facts sufficiently appear in…
1Opinion of the Court
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Rice, P. J.,
This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, in an action of trespass brought to recover damages for the injury to it, as a lower riparian owner, by the diversion of the waters of Connoquenessing creek by the defendant company, in the years 1894 and 1895.
The defendant company was incorporated in 1877, under the provisions of the general corporation law of 1874, for the purpose of supplying the borough of Butler with water. In the following year the company built a dam across Connoquenessing creek, from which water is pumped to a reservoir, and thence…
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