Sullivan v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 140, Oct. T., 1907, by defendants, from decree of O. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., Oct. Term, 1902, No. 620, awarding an attachment for contempt of court in case of E. R. Sullivan and Jennie P. A. Sullivan, his wife, v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Company et al. Petition for attachment for contempt.
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Appeal, No. 140, Oct. T., 1907, by defendants, from decree of O. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., Oct. Term, 1902, No. 620, awarding an attachment for contempt of court in case of E. R. Sullivan and Jennie P. A. Sullivan, his wife, v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Company et al. Petition for attachment for contempt. The trial court, Young, J., found the defendants guilty of contempt in the following opinion : This cause comes before us now upon the petition of the plaintiffs reciting that on April 19, 1904, at the above number and term of this court, a decree was entered by this court, among other things,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
The decree in this case perpetually enjoins Jones & Laughlin Steel Company from such operation of its furnaces, situated in the Fourteenth ward of the city of Pittsburg, as to cause to be emitted therefrom clouds of ore dust, working and causing the injury to the property of the appellees as in their bill of complaint described and found by the court below: Sullivan v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Co., 208 Pa. 540. For an alleged violation of this injunction the appellants were found guilty of contempt, and their appeal is from that finding and the penalties imposed upon…
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