Alabama Consolidated C. &. I. Co. v. Vines
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Heard before Hon. Charles A. Senn. Action by Greenberry Vines against the Alabama Consolidated Coal & Iron Company and others. The actions were consolidated and tried together. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendants appeal.
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Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Heard before Hon. Charles A. Senn. Action by Greenberry Vines against the Alabama Consolidated Coal & Iron Company and others. The actions were consolidated and tried together. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendants appeal. Appellee sued appellants separately for damages resulting from the pollution of a stream and the deposits therefrom of coal dust, ore washings, and muck deposited upon the lands, together with the loss of crops for the year previous occasioned by these deposits, which deposits are alleged to have been placed in the stream by the…
1Opinion of the CourtHaralson, J.
The evidence of the plaintiff tended to establish the averments of the complaint— that as a result of the deposits of coal dust and other foreign matter on the land, coming from above, where defendants’ washers Avere located, the land Avas rendered less productive and the yield of the crops on that ac*403count had fallen off. That for defendants tended to show, that there was- no appreciable coal dust left on plaintiff’s lands, and that there were no deposits of muck thereon, which were not of a character found on other branches of the Little Warrior river, on which no coal washers were located.
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