Commonwealth Ex Rel. Chidsey v. Black

Opinion by

Me. Chief Justice Maxey,

The Commonwealth on the relation of the Attorney General filed a Bill in Equity in the Common Pleas Court of Dauphin County praying that an injunction be issued, preliminarily until hearing, and permanently thereafter, restraining defendant’s strip mining operation in a tract of land in Westmoreland County, in order to prevent the discharge of acid mine drainage and other industrial wastes into the, clear waters of the PoAvdermill Run and Loyalhanna Creek, which waters are devoted to public use.

The Chancellor granted the preliminary injunction, and after…