Day v. Louisville Coal & Coke Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Mercer County. Action by Joshua Day and wife against the Louisville Coal & Coke Company. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Brannon, Judge.
Joshua Day and his wife, S. E. Day, filed a declaration in trespass on the case in the circuit court of Mercer county against Louisville Coal & Coke Company, a corporation, alleging that S. E. Day owned a tract of land situate on Blue Stone river, about sixty acres consisting of river bottom, very fertile for agricultural purposes; that the river flowed *28through the bottom land, and that the river, before damaged from the cause stated in the declaration, had been one remarkable for its beauty and the purity of its water, 'and contained a great number of valuable fish of many…
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