Dixon v. Sheffer
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 23, March T., 1911, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. York Co., Jan. T., 1910, No. 3, sustaining order of commissioner of health, and discharging appeal therefrom in case of Samuel G. Dixon, Commissioner of Health, v. Benjamin F. Sheffer, Levi F. Sheffer, The Glen Rock Stamping Company, J. M. Grove, I. F. Grove and J. M. Grove. Appeal from order of commissioner of health.
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Appeal, No. 23, March T., 1911, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. York Co., Jan. T., 1910, No. 3, sustaining order of commissioner of health, and discharging appeal therefrom in case of Samuel G. Dixon, Commissioner of Health, v. Benjamin F. Sheffer, Levi F. Sheffer, The Glen Rock Stamping Company, J. M. Grove, I. F. Grove and J. M. Grove. Appeal from order of commissioner of health. Before Wanner, J. The court found the facts to be as follows: 1. The South Branch of the Codorus Creek flows through the borough of Glen Rock, York county, Pa., about twelve miles above the point in said…
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Opinion by
Oblady, J.,
On July 23, 1909, the appellants in this case were severally served with a written notice issued by Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, commissioner of health of this commonwealth, *456stating that in his opinion the discharge of sewage and the drainage of privies into the waters of a branch of Codorus Creek in the borough of Glen Rock, York county, from a building owned, occupied and used, as a factory or place for work by the appellants, “ is now injurious to the public health, and that after an examination of the building and premises, he finds and adjudges that the privies so maintained…
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