H. B. Bowling Coal Co. v. Ruffner

delivered tbe opinion of tbe Court.

Tbe plaintiff below recovered a verdict and judgment against tbe coal company for the sum of $516 as damages for tbe alleged contamination of a stream in which plaintiff claimed certain riparian rights. It is shown in tbe evidence that tbe plaintiff, J. W. Ruffner, has for many years owned a farm comprising twenty-nine acres in Morgan county, Tennessee, and that through said farm tbe waters of a certain stream, known as tbe “East Fork” of Little Emory river, flowed. Plaintiff is tbe owner of a steam saw and grist mill situated on said stream on said farm,…