Dickensheet v. Chouteau Mining Co.

— The plaintiff recovered a judgment in an action in trespass, the jury awarding $200 actual damages and $300 exemplary damages.

The defendant company was operating a lead and zinc mining plant near plaintiff’s land. By the operation of the plant there was a discharge of water which contained -a ■ gray or murkish colored sediment called hy the witnesses “sludge,” and this was released hy the defendant in a small dry branch which coursed across a private road owned hy plaintiff and other landowners which afforded them a route to the, public road leading to Springfield, Missouri, the city where…